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chlorin
  1. (organic chemistry) A large heterocyclic aromatic ring consisting, at the core, of three pyrroles and one pyrroline coupled through four methine linkages.
  2. Archaic form of chlorine.
  3. Examples:
    1. “In general, these newer drugs have been based on the structure of chlorin, purpurin, phthalocyanine or naphthalocyanine.”
      “They recently studied the biodistribution of tetra chlorin and benzoporphyrin derivative monoacid ring A in the hamster model.”
      “The sodium appears as Na in the sodium sulfate, and the chlorin as Cl in the two parts of hydrochloric acid.”
chlorimide
  1. (inorganic chemistry) The unstable compound NHCl2; dichloramine
  2. (organic chemistry) Any imide in which a hydrogen atom attached to the nitrogen atom has been replaced by chlorine
chlorine
  1. A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.
  2. (countable) A single atom of this element.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I jumped into the pool, but the overwhelming smell of chlorine made it difficult to breathe.”
      “Of the chemical solutions, chlorine tablets will kill many pathogens, but not some parasites like giardia and amoebic cysts.”
      “In the early 1990s, 46 of the 145 pulp mills in Canada used various chlorine bleaching processes to whiten paper.”
chloride
  1. (chemistry) any salt of hydrochloric acid, such as sodium chloride, or any binary compound of chlorine and another element or radical
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Sodium chloride, a common chloride, is widely used as a seasoning and preservative in the food industry.”
      “The hydrated protein-lipid system was solvated in a water bath including chloride and sodium ions at physiological concentration.”
      “Important monomers which undergo these reactions include styrene, methylmethacrylate, vinyl acetate, vinyl chloride, and other acrylates.”
chlorination
  1. (chemistry) The act or process of chlorinating something; especially, the addition of chlorine to water to purify it, and a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Polychlorinated biphenyls are a family of 209 congeners with 2 linked phenyl rings and variable chlorination.”
      “Some municipal water users sometimes switch to harvested rainwater as a way to avoid chlorination and fluoridation treatments.”
      “Continuous chlorination should not be a substitute for a sanitary water supply.”
chlorinolysis
  1. (chemistry) The chlorination of an organic compound so as to yield chloro compounds with fewer carbon atoms than the starting material.
chlorinity
  1. (chemistry) A quantitative measure of the amount of chlorine and other halides in water, especially in seawater
  2. Examples:
    1. “Standard laboratory techniques such as titration are routinely used at sea for determining chlorinity.”
      “The difference in the amounts added gives the degree of chlorinity.”
      “Salinity is the total weight of dissolved solids, in grams, found in one kilogram of seawater and may be determined from the concentration of chlorinity because of the constancy of major constituents.”
chloriodine
  1. (chemistry) A compound of chlorine and iodine.
chlorinator
  1. That which chlorinates.
  2. Examples:
    1. “For instance, a town of 7,000 might have a sewage plant containing four pumps, sludge thickeners, and a chlorinator.”
      “A small amount of salt is added to a pool and after passing through the cells of a chlorinator the salt water is converted to chlorine.”
      “The company's chlorinator system can provide this pretreatment process.”
chlorion
  1. (archaic) A chlorine ion.
chlorines
  1. plural of chlorine (atoms of chlorine)
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In table salt, sodium atoms donate one electron each to chlorine atoms, making the sodiums positively charged ions and the chlorines negatively charged ions.”
      “Not only is there no special propensity for cancer causation among chlorines, the addition of chlorine can actually detoxify certain compounds.”
      “How toxic and persistent any one of them will be in the human body is determined by how many chlorines it has and where they reside.”
chlorinations
  1. plural of chlorination
chlorinators
  1. plural of chlorinator
chlorimides
  1. plural of chlorimide
chlorinities
  1. plural of chlorinity
chlorides
  1. plural of chloride
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Pyrotechnicians started putting metal chlorides in the fireworks to produce a dazzling array of color.”
      “Heating with alkyl chlorides gives a mixture of the mono and the dialkyl aniline.”
      “Primary amides are prepared by reacting ammonia or amines with acid chlorides, anhydrides, or esters.”
chlorions
  1. plural of chlorion
chlorins
  1. plural of chlorin
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