chlorine

chlorine

English

Chemical element
Cl
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Etymology

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1810 from Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “pale green”) + -ine.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: klôʹrēn, IPA^(key): /ˈklɔɹin/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: klôʹrēn, IPA^(key): /ˈklɔːɹiːn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiːn
• Hyphenation: chlo‧rine

Noun

chlorine (usually uncountable, plural chlorines)

1. A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.

   Synonym: (when used as a food additive) E925

   Hypernym: halogen

2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Hypernyms

• element
  • halogen

Derived terms

• antichlor, antichlore
• antichlorine
• chloral
• chlorane
• chlor-, chloro-
• chloric
• chloride
• chlorinate
• chlorination
• chlorine-35
• chlorine-36
• chlorine-37
• chlorine dioxide
• chlorine fluoride
• chlorine monofluoride
• chlorine oxide
• chlorine pentafluoride
• chlorine trifluoride
• chlorine water
• chloriniferous
• chlorinise, chlorinize
• chlorinous
• chlorite
• chloroid
• chlorous
• chloruret
• dichlorine
• organochlorine

 

Related terms

• chlorate
• chlorurated

 

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: chloor (af) Albanian: klor (sq) m Arabic: كُلُور‎ m (kulūr) Armenian: քլոր (hy) (kʿlor) Asturian: cloru (ast) m Azerbaijani: xlor Basque: kloroa Belarusian: хлор m (xlor) Bengali: ক্লোরিন (klorin) Breton: klor (br) m Bulgarian: хлор m (hlor) Burmese: ကလိုရင်း (ka.luirang:) Catalan: clor (ca) m Central Melanau: klorin Chinese: Cantonese: 氯 (luk6) Hakka: 氯 (liu̍k) Mandarin: 氯 (zh) (lǜ) Min Nan: 鹽素, 盐素 (iâm-sò͘), 氯 (lio̍k, lo̍k) Cornish: cloryn ? Czech: chlór (cs) m Danish: klor (da) ? Dutch: chloor (nl) m Esperanto: kloro (eo) Estonian: kloor (et) Faroese: klor n Finnish: kloori (fi) French: chlore (fr) m Friulian: clôr ? Galician: cloro (gl) m Georgian: ქლორი (klori) German: Chlor (de) n Greek: χλώριο (el) n (chlório) Hebrew: כְלוֹר‎ (he) m (khlór) Hindi: नीरजी ? (nīrjī), क्लोरीन ? (klorīn) Hungarian: klór (hu) Icelandic: klór (is) m Indonesian: klorin (id) Interlingua: chloro Irish: clóirín (ga) m Italian: cloro (it) m Japanese: 塩素 (ja) (えんそ, enso) Kashubian: chlor Kazakh: хлор (kk) (xlor) Khmer: ក្លរ (klɑɑ), ក្លរីន (klɑriin) Korean: 염소(鹽素) (ko) (yeomso) Kyrgyz: хлор (ky) (hlor) Lao: ຄລໍຣິນ (kha lǭ rin) Latvian: hlors ? Lingala: koloki class 9a/10a Lithuanian: chloras (lt) ? Luxembourgish: Chlor ? Macedonian: хлор m (hlor) Malay: klorin (ms) Malayalam: ക്ലോറിൻ (klōṟiṉ) Maltese: kloru ? Manx: cloreen m Maori: haumāota Mongolian: хлор (mn) (xlor) Norwegian: Bokmål: klor (no) n Nynorsk: klor (nn) n Occitan: clòr (oc) m Persian: کلر‎ (fa) (kolor) Polish: chlor (pl) m Portuguese: cloro (pt) m Romanian: clor (ro) n Russian: хлор (ru) m (xlor) Sanskrit: नीरजी ? (nīrajī) Scottish Gaelic: clòirin m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хло̑р m, кло̑р ? Roman: hlȏr m, klȏr (sh) ? Sinhalese: ක්ලෝරීන් (klōrīn) Slovak: chlór (sk) ? Slovene: klor (sl) ? Spanish: cloro (es) m Swahili: klorini Swedish: klor (sv) n Tagalog: kloro Tajik: хлор (xlor) Tamil: குளோரின் (ta) (kuḷōriṉ) Telugu: హరినము (harinamu) Thai: คลอรีน (klɔɔ-riin) Turkish: klor (tr) Turkmen: hlor Ukrainian: хлор m (xlor) Urdu: کلورین‎ (klorīn) Uzbek: xlor (uz) Cyrillic: хлор (uz) (xlor) Vietnamese: clo Volapük: klorin (vo) Welsh: clorin (cy) m West Frisian: gloor ?

See also

• carnallite
• halite
• sylvite

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English chlorine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌxloːˈri.nə/
• Hyphenation: chlo‧ri‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Noun

chlorine f (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) chlorine

   Synonyms: chloor, zoutstof