Chlorine is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CHLORINE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a yellowish-green halogen gaseous element, also CHLORIN
• the chemical element of atomic number 17, a toxic, irritant, pale green gas.
• strong-smelling greenish-yellow gaseous element, used to disinfect water
• One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.
• a common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a gaseous element

Words related to CHLORINE

chlorin12 chlorines14

Words that contain CHLORINE

chlorines14 euchlorine15 euchlorines16 organochlorine20 organochlorines21

How to use CHLORINE in a sentence

• The breath of chlorine is deadly, but we daily eat it in safety, wrapped in its poison-proof envelope of sodium, as common salt.
• Its twelve funnels show only four enclosed bodies, the same as we see in chlorine, bromine, iodine, copper and silver, and which is very little modified in gold.
• A simple calculation will then give the proportion of chlorine in the dilute urine, and this multiplied by ten shows the percentage.
• The light will separate the silver chloride into chlorine and silver, the latter of which will remain on the plate as a thin film.
• There is thus some free chlorine left over from the acid, and this passes off as a gas and can be collected, as in Figure 158.
• By experiment it has been found that the addition to the bleaching solution of an acid, such as vinegar or lemon juice or sulphuric acid, causes the liberation of the chlorine.
• The acid used to liberate the chlorine from the bleaching powder, and the chlorine also, rot materials with which they remain in contact for any length of time.
• The presence of these nitrogen compounds influences the action of the chlorine and produces unsatisfactory results.
• Then, before it be exposed to the vapor of mercury, expose it for a very brief period to the vapor of either chlorine, bromine or iodine.
• Water recently boiled will absorb, if cold, about twice its bulk of chlorine gas, acquiring its color and characteristic properties.
• Wolcott, attempting the use of iodine, bromine, and chlorine, and at times with more or less success.
• The process of extracting gold from ores by absorption of the precious metal in chlorine gas, from which it is reduced to a metallic state, is not a very new discovery.
• Lime and magnesia might be contained in the quartz, and would be attacked by the chlorine.
• The chlorine method is the one in general use in the British Army, as it is in all of the other allied armies.
• The possibility of using chlorine in the field was brought to the attention of the British Army authorities by the publication of a method evolved by the writer in 1909.
• Chlorine and sodium are elements, salt is a compound.
• The presence of chlorine in the fibre must be carefully avoided, as such a fibre will yield an acid product which cannot be washed neutral.

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