Chlorine
['klɔːriːn] or ['klɔrin]
Definition
(noun.) 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).
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Definition
(n.) 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.
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Definition
n. a yellowish-green gas with a peculiar and suffocating odour.—ns. Chlō′ral a limpid colourless oily liquid with a peculiar penetrating odour formed when anhydrous alcohol is acted on by dry chlorine gas; Chlō′ralism the habit of using chloral a morbid state induced by such; Chlō′rate a salt composed of chloric acid and a base.—adj. Chlō′ric of or from chlorine.—n. Chlō′ride a compound of chlorine with some other substance as potash soda &c.—v.t. Chlō′ridise to convert into a chloride: (phot.) to cover with chloride of silver—also Chlō′ridate.—n. Chlorinā′tion the process of getting gold &c. out of ore by the use of chlorine.—v.t. Chlō′rinise to combine or otherwise treat with chlorine—also Chlō′rinate.—ns. Chlō′rite a mineral consisting of silica alumina &c. in variable proportions—it is of a green colour rather soft and is easily scratched with a knife; Chlō′rodyne a patent medicine containing opium chloroform &c. used for allaying pain and inducing sleep; Chlō′roform a limpid mobile colourless volatile liquid with a characteristic odour and a strong sweetish taste used to induce insensibility.—adj. Chlō′roid like chlorine.—ns. Chlōrom′eter an instrument for measuring the bleaching powers of chloride of lime; Chlōrom′etry the process of testing the decolouring power of any compound of chlorine; Chlō′rophyl the ordinary colouring matter of vegetation consisting of minute soft granules in the cells; Chlorō′sis properly green-sickness a peculiar form of an鎚ia or bloodlessness common in young women and connected with the disorders incident to the critical period of life.—adjs. Chlōrot′ic pertaining to chlorosis; Chlō′rous full of chlorine.—Chloric acid a syrupy liquid with faint chlorine colour and acid reaction.
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Examples
- For example, if the sun's rays fall upon silver chloride, a chemical action immediately begins, and as a result we have two separate substances, chlorine and silver. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Free chlorine is heavier than air, and hence when it leaves the exit tube it settles at the bottom of the jar, displacing the air, and finally filling the bottle. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Silk, lace, and wool when bleached with chlorine become hard and brittle, but when whitened with sulphurous acid, they retain their natural characteristics. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Chloride of lime when exposed to the air and moisture slowly gives off chlorine, and can be used as a disinfectant because the gas thus set free attacks germs and destroys them. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is soluble in nitromuriatic acid and in a solution of chlorine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The production of caustic soda, sodium carbonate, and chlorine by the electrolysis of brine, is carried on upon a large scale, and will probably supersede all other methods. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As the moist material is drawn through the bleaching solution, the acid on the fabric acts upon the solution and releases chlorine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The manganese itself combines with part of the chlorine originally in the acid, but not with all. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The presence of these nitrogen compounds influences the action of the chlorine and produces unsatisfactory results. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For animal fibers it is therefore necessary to discard chlorine as a bleaching agent, and to substitute a substance which will have a less disastrous action upon the fibers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Of all the vast group of salts, the most abundant as well as the most important is common salt, known technically as sodium chloride because of its two constituents, sodium and chlorine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The chlorine liberates oxygen from the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the dark, chlorine and hydrogen are simply chlorine and hydrogen; in the sunlight they combine as if by magic into a totally different substance. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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