About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- chlorine
POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

chlorine

RELATED WORDS :

 : 
Noun
 : 
chlo=rine

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun chlorine has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

chlorinen. [Gr. pale green, greenish yellow. So named from its color. See Yellow.].
     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 (Sodium chloride). It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.  [1913 Webster]
Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiarities.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chlorine, n. Chem. a poisonous greenish-yellow gaseous element of the halogen group occurring naturally in salt, sea-water, rock-salt, etc., and used for purifying water, bleaching, and the manufacture of many organic chemicals.

Usage
Symb.: Cl.
Etymology
Gk khloros green + -INE(4)
See related words and definitions of word "chlorine" in Indonesian
copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion