Chlorine Definition

klôrēn, -ĭn
noun
A greenish-yellow, poisonous, gaseous chemical element, one of the halogens, having a disagreeable odor and obtained by electrolysis of certain chlorides: it is used as a bleaching agent, in water purification, in various industrial processes, etc.: symbol, Cl; at. no. 17
Webster's New World

(physics) The major stable isotope of chlorine, 3517Cl, having seventeen protons and eighteen neutrons; it amounts to about 76% of the element in nature.

Wiktionary

(physics) A long-lived radioactive isotope of chlorine, 3617Cl, having seventeen protons and nineteen neutrons, and a half-life of 3x105 years; it can be used to date samples of groundwater.

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(physics) The minor stable isotope of chlorine, 3717Cl, having seventeen protons and twenty neutrons; it amounts to about 24% of the element in nature.

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Origin of Chlorine

  • Coined by Sir Humphry Davy from Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōros, “pale green”)

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Chlorine Sentence Examples

  • It is occasionally used as a chlorine carrier.

  • It combines directly with fluorine at Ordinary temperature, and with chlorine, bromine and sulphur on heating.

  • In the formation of gaseous hydrobromic acid from liquid bromine and gaseous hydrogen H2+Br2=HBr+HBr, in addition to the energy expended in decomposing the hydrogen and bromine molecules, energy is also expended in converting the liquid bromine into the gaseous condition, and probably less heat is developed by the combination of bromine and hydrogen than by the combination of chlorine and hydrogen, so that the amount of heat finally developed is much less than is developed in the formation of hydrochloric acid.

  • It is decomposed by chlorine.

  • It is the final product of burning bismuth in an excess of chlorine.

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