Crossword clues for chlorinate
chlorinate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chlorinate \Chlo"rin*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chlorinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Chlorinating.] (Chem.) To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1836 (implied in chlorinated), from chlorine (n.) + -ate (2). Related: Chlorinating.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive chemistry English) To add chlorine to (something, especially water, to purify it; or an auriferous substance, to extract gold from it).
WordNet
v. treat or combine with chlorine; "chlorinated water"
disinfect with chlorine; "chlorinate a pool"
Usage examples of "chlorinate".
The rest was piled up on top of his ears and hanging shaggily down over the collar of his suit coat, its light blond color similar to that of a competitive swimmer who spends five hours a day in a pool full of heavily chlorinated water.
Bosnian housekeeper having employed a product that contained xylene and chlorinated hydrocarbons to clean some crayon-marks off a bleached-oak end table.
Scrap can be "demagged" by smelting the scrap in the presence of a flux, and a chlorinating or fluorinating agent (liquid chlorine, aluminum chloride, aluminum fluoride).
He had discarded the chlorinating equipment, rerigged the old atmospherics, located the ship's position in space, tried to plot a course, and sent out carefully guarded signals—which had worked.
He had discarded the chlorinating equipment, rerigged the old atmospherics, located the ship's position in space, tried to plot a course, and sent out carefully guarded signals-which had worked.
He had discarded the chlorinating equipment, rerigged the old atmospherics, located the ship’s position in space, tried to plot a course, and sent out carefully guarded signals--which had worked.
He just walked the path around the chainlink fence that kept woodland animals from coming to drown in the chlorinated water.
Simeon led them down the dimly lighted corridor, which smelled of chlorinated lime and medication.
The addition of a small quantity of solute chlorinated lime should decide the question beyond reach of cavil.
His glassed-in sun porch, which gave onto the lake, was filled with potted banana, umbrella, orange, and Hong Kong orchid trees, and in the center of the house was a heavily chlorinated, lime-green swimming pool with steam rising off the water.
Chlorinated hydrocarbons, such as the chemical chlordane, are used routinely for termites (and ants) in thousands of homes with dozens of litres being used for an average domestic residence.