Vocabulary : Chlorine to Chloroform

Chlorine : 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.
Chloriodic : Compounded of chlorine and iodine; containing chlorine and iodine.
Chloriodine : A compound of chlorine and iodine.
Chlorite : The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia. ;; Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.
Chloritic : Pertaining to, or containing, chlorite; as, chloritic sand.

Chlormethane : A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride.
Chloro- : A prefix denoting that chlorine is an ingredient in the substance named.
Chlorocruorin : A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms.
Chlorodyne : A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.
Chloroform : A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anaesthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain. ;; To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence.

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