a pale greenish-yellow gas

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• Chlorine — Chlo rine, n. [Gr. ? pale green, greenish yellow. So named from its color. See {Yellow}.] (Chem.) 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Chlorine family — Chlorine Chlo rine, n. [Gr. ? pale green, greenish yellow. So named from its color. See {Yellow}.] (Chem.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• halogens — Chlorine Chlo rine, n. [Gr. ? pale green, greenish yellow. So named from its color. See {Yellow}.] (Chem.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• sulphur — n. & v. (US sulfur) n. 1 a a pale yellow non metallic element having crystalline and amorphous forms, burning with a blue flame and a suffocating smell, and used in making gunpowder, matches, and sulphuric acid, in the vulcanizing of rubber, and… …   Useful english dictionary

• Chlorine trifluoride — Systematic name …   Wikipedia

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• Allotropes of sulfur — There are a large number of allotropes of sulfur. In this respect, sulfur is second only to carbon.[1] The most common form found in nature is yellow orthorhombic α sulfur, which contains puckered rings of S8.[1] Chemistry students may have seen… …   Wikipedia

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• chlo|rine — «KLR een, ihn; KLOHR », noun. a greenish yellow, bad smelling, poisonous gas. It is a chemical element, one of the halogens, which occurs chiefly in combination with sodium as common salt. Chlorine is very irritating to the nose, throat, and… …   Useful english dictionary