chlorines
- plural of chlorine.
Example Sentences
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To produce dicarbon, they started with molecules consisting of two carbon atoms and four chlorine atoms and used a laser to strip off the chlorines, leaving only dicarbon.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2022
The trans isomer, formed when the chlorines are positioned at a 180° angle, has very different properties from the cis isomers.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
