chlorinate

English

Etymology

chlorine +‎ -ate

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈklɒ.ɹɪ.neɪt/

Verb

chlorinate (third-person singular simple present chlorinates, present participle chlorinating, simple past and past participle chlorinated)

(transitive, chemistry) To add chlorine to (something, especially water, to purify it; or an auriferous substance, to extract gold from it).

Derived terms

chlorinated
chlorination
chlorinator
perchlorinate

Translations

to add chlorine to

Arabic: كلور‎ (kalwara)
Belarusian: хларава́ць impf or pf (xlaravácʹ)
Catalan: clorar (ca)
Finnish: kloorata
French: chlorer (fr)
Galician: clorar (gl)
Hungarian: klóroz
Ido: klorizar (io)
Italian: clorurare (it)
Polish: chlorować (pl) impf
Russian: хлори́ровать (ru) impf or pf (xlorírovatʹ)
Spanish: clorinar
Swedish: klorera (sv)
Turkish: klorlamak (tr)
Ukrainian: хлорува́ти impf (xloruváty)

Anagrams

ectorhinal, trachelion