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What does halogen mean?

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  1. (chemistry) Any element of group 17, i.e. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and astatine, which form a salt by direct union with a metal.
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Are they more the type you find hanging out around your polished granite benchtop with halogen downlighting perhaps?
When a halogen combines with another element, the resulting compound is called a halide.
Nitriles are formed by heating amides with phosphorous pentoxide or by treating organic halogen compounds with sodium cyanide.
A halogen bulb provided the light directed to the muscle fibers by a condenser lens.
On one side fields stretch out into blackness, but in front and to the right blaze thousands of halogen lamps.
I've updated the Periodic Table entries for the halogen astatine and for darmstadtium, which you may know better as element 110 or ununnilium.

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