chlori

v. t. To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography. R. Hunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt). [ 1913 Webster ]

Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. --
Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOCl2, used in bleaching and disinfecting; -- called more properly calcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. --
Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Chloridate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Chlorometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chlorinated p. pr. & vb. n. Chlorinating. ] (Chem.) To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiarities. [ 1913 Webster ]