Chlorine
noun
A chemical element in gas form that has a strong smell, often used in cleaning products or to purify water.
Swimming pools often have chlorine in them to keep the water clean.
Often appears as...
- chlorine gas
- chlorine bleach
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Technical
noun
A yellow-green, nonflammable gas that is denser than air. In high concentrations, its fumes can be fatal.
The factory mishap resulted in a deadly leakage of chlorine gas.
Often appears as...
- chlorine dioxide
- liquid chlorine
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Technical
noun
A chemical element in gas form that has a strong smell, often used in cleaning products or to purify water.
Swimming pools often have chlorine in them to keep the water clean.
Often appears as...
- chlorine gas
- chlorine bleach
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A yellow-green, nonflammable gas that is denser than air. In high concentrations, its fumes can be fatal.
The factory mishap resulted in a deadly leakage of chlorine gas.
Often appears as...
- chlorine dioxide
- liquid chlorine
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Safety Measure
Associated with cleanliness but also danger due to its toxicity in higher concentrations.
The pool was closed for safety due to excessive chlorine levels.
Pro Tip 2/3Odor Identification
Chlorine's strong, distinct odor can be recognized in pools and cleaning agents.
You can smell the chlorine as soon as you enter the indoor pool area.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Reaction
High exposure can irritate the skin and eyes, important in pool-related contexts.
After swimming, my eyes are red from the chlorine in the water.
Pro Tip 1/3Safety Measure
Associated with cleanliness but also danger due to its toxicity in higher concentrations.
The pool was closed for safety due to excessive chlorine levels.
Pro Tip 2/3Odor Identification
Chlorine's strong, distinct odor can be recognized in pools and cleaning agents.
You can smell the chlorine as soon as you enter the indoor pool area.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Reaction
High exposure can irritate the skin and eyes, important in pool-related contexts.
After swimming, my eyes are red from the chlorine in the water.
Pro Tip 1/3Safety Measure
Associated with cleanliness but also danger due to its toxicity in higher concentrations.
The pool was closed for safety due to excessive chlorine levels.
Pro Tip 2/3Odor Identification
Chlorine's strong, distinct odor can be recognized in pools and cleaning agents.
You can smell the chlorine as soon as you enter the indoor pool area.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Reaction
High exposure can irritate the skin and eyes, important in pool-related contexts.
After swimming, my eyes are red from the chlorine in the water.
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Attack of the killer...
having most likely come from the dumping of home aquarium water into a connecting storm drain, it was decided to stop it before it spread. Tarps were placed over the Culerpa colonies and chlorine injected inside. Although this method killed all other marine life trapped under the tarps, it did succeed in eradicating the algae
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A crash course in...
Natural or synthetic, they're all just molecules that happen to fit snugly somewhere important. But nature is much better at making them than we are, so hers look more impressive than ours, like this one. This is called vancomycin. She gave this majestic beast two chlorine atoms
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Cannibal Bugs and...
media but to decision-makers and it was not very well seen by the entire community but I'm glad we did because we were convinced that the threat was real and eventually of course it that that's came to me at the time you said it really was the chlorine in this
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Selling Survival:...
old full of heavy metals bromine toxic chlorine whatever it is 22 year old deep two year old for walk it's supposed to change your core water my god portal in here and we're gonna mix this little special concoction of filthy dirt from the parking lot
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Green Laundry Room...
looking for detergents that aren't petroleum-based but plant-based avoid soaps that contain phosphates which deprived aquatic life of oxygen now another ingredient to skip uh-huh bleaches with chlorine because this stuff is known to contaminate
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Coming of Age in the...
Once that happens, the chlorine atoms start devouring the precious ozone molecules. It wasn't until our planet developed an ozone layer, about two and a half billion years ago, that it was safe for life to leave the ocean for the land.
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How to turn your...
On one occasion, I got out of my car to call for help for a man who had collapsed on the road. I accidentally stepped in liquid that was coming down the road from where he lay. I rushed to my parents' house, washed my feet in chlorine.
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What is chirality and...
Take a look at the two molecules you see here. Each one is characterized by a central, tetrahedral carbon atom bound to four different bromine, chlorine, fluorine, and hydrogen. We might be tempted to conclude that the two molecules
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We can solve big...
split off a chlorine atom react with the ozone destroying the ozone layer in few years later scientists confirmed the hypothesis and then observed a huge decrease in ozone
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The business case for...
We had been using the white bag. It's virgin material, it's made from chlorine bleaching chemicals, and they said, use an unbleached bag,
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Attack of the killer...
having most likely come from the dumping of home aquarium water into a connecting storm drain, it was decided to stop it before it spread. Tarps were placed over the Culerpa colonies and chlorine injected inside. Although this method killed all other marine life trapped under the tarps, it did succeed in eradicating the algae
Video examples
A crash course in...
Natural or synthetic, they're all just molecules that happen to fit snugly somewhere important. But nature is much better at making them than we are, so hers look more impressive than ours, like this one. This is called vancomycin. She gave this majestic beast two chlorine atoms
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Cannibal Bugs and...
media but to decision-makers and it was not very well seen by the entire community but I'm glad we did because we were convinced that the threat was real and eventually of course it that that's came to me at the time you said it really was the chlorine in this
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Selling Survival:...
old full of heavy metals bromine toxic chlorine whatever it is 22 year old deep two year old for walk it's supposed to change your core water my god portal in here and we're gonna mix this little special concoction of filthy dirt from the parking lot
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Green Laundry Room...
looking for detergents that aren't petroleum-based but plant-based avoid soaps that contain phosphates which deprived aquatic life of oxygen now another ingredient to skip uh-huh bleaches with chlorine because this stuff is known to contaminate
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Coming of Age in the...
Once that happens, the chlorine atoms start devouring the precious ozone molecules. It wasn't until our planet developed an ozone layer, about two and a half billion years ago, that it was safe for life to leave the ocean for the land.
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How to turn your...
On one occasion, I got out of my car to call for help for a man who had collapsed on the road. I accidentally stepped in liquid that was coming down the road from where he lay. I rushed to my parents' house, washed my feet in chlorine.
Video examples
What is chirality and...
Take a look at the two molecules you see here. Each one is characterized by a central, tetrahedral carbon atom bound to four different bromine, chlorine, fluorine, and hydrogen. We might be tempted to conclude that the two molecules
Video examples
We can solve big...
split off a chlorine atom react with the ozone destroying the ozone layer in few years later scientists confirmed the hypothesis and then observed a huge decrease in ozone
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The business case for...
We had been using the white bag. It's virgin material, it's made from chlorine bleaching chemicals, and they said, use an unbleached bag,
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Judd Trump
English Entertainer
My eyesight had always been good but at school I went swimming one day and the chlorine affected me badly. I was almost blinded for two weeks and from there things deteriorated. Then at the World Championship in 2007 I realised I couldn't see the back of the pocket. It was one big blur. My first two seasons as a pro it was dreadful.
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Pete Holmes
American Comedian
A stand-up act is almost like a pool. You know what I mean? It's like a pool, and you're always skimming little leaves out of it, messing with the chlorine level, putting up umbrellas. You're trying to make one little stagnant body of water perfect. Whereas a late-night show is like a river, always moving forward.
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Erin Brockovich
American Activist
If a community water system is forced to conduct a chlorine burn because they are experiencing nitrification, it is because they have failed... It is a remedial action to correct a serious problem they themselves have created because they are cheating on the regulations.
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Daphne Zuniga
American Actress
One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.
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Norman Swan
Australian Journalist
So chlorination, essentially bleaching, does work for SARS CoV-2, it does kill the virus. But the question is whether there's enough chlorine in the pool water to do that, and of course it's very diluted.
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Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
The 'SAMS' study, titled 'A New Normal: Ongoing Chemical Weapons Attacks in Syria', reveals that the Assad regime merely switched from sarin gas to chlorine gas in its bombardment of civilians areas.
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Paul Nassif
Lebanese Celebrity
Dry skin is unhappy, damage-prone skin, so apply a product to protect it from summertime drying agents like sunburns, salt and chlorine.
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Patti Davis
American Celebrity
When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.
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Ryan Lochte
American Athlete
My whole family swims! You can pretty much say chlorine runs in our veins.
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Judd Trump
English Entertainer
My eyesight had always been good but at school I went swimming one day and the chlorine affected me badly. I was almost blinded for two weeks and from there things deteriorated. Then at the World Championship in 2007 I realised I couldn't see the back of the pocket. It was one big blur. My first two seasons as a pro it was dreadful.
Quote examples
Pete Holmes
American Comedian
A stand-up act is almost like a pool. You know what I mean? It's like a pool, and you're always skimming little leaves out of it, messing with the chlorine level, putting up umbrellas. You're trying to make one little stagnant body of water perfect. Whereas a late-night show is like a river, always moving forward.
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Erin Brockovich
American Activist
If a community water system is forced to conduct a chlorine burn because they are experiencing nitrification, it is because they have failed... It is a remedial action to correct a serious problem they themselves have created because they are cheating on the regulations.
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Daphne Zuniga
American Actress
One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.
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Norman Swan
Australian Journalist
So chlorination, essentially bleaching, does work for SARS CoV-2, it does kill the virus. But the question is whether there's enough chlorine in the pool water to do that, and of course it's very diluted.
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Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
The 'SAMS' study, titled 'A New Normal: Ongoing Chemical Weapons Attacks in Syria', reveals that the Assad regime merely switched from sarin gas to chlorine gas in its bombardment of civilians areas.
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Paul Nassif
Lebanese Celebrity
Dry skin is unhappy, damage-prone skin, so apply a product to protect it from summertime drying agents like sunburns, salt and chlorine.
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Patti Davis
American Celebrity
When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.
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Ryan Lochte
American Athlete
My whole family swims! You can pretty much say chlorine runs in our veins.
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