Crossword clues for halogens
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt (Sodium chloride). It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.
Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiarities.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of halogen English)
Usage examples of "halogens".
He was standing in the living room some fifty feet away, looking at me, the halogens throwing just a little of their dedicated light on him and he said again, "There is no black granite statue in this room.
He looked tall and very strong, standing there, back to the dingy light of the windows, the halogens making sparkles on his brass buttons.
On the borderline hydrogen burned fitfully with halogens, and even with nitrogen to form ammonia, but around most of the great circle the fires had gone out.
Even the halogens were still frozen across its flat top, thousands of square miles of fiourine ice with near-vacuum above.
Even the halogens were still frozen across its flat top, thousands of square miles of fluorine ice with near-vacuum above.