oxychloride
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Phosphorus oxychloride is used as a base material by the chemical manufacturing industry, and can be corrosive and highly toxic if it makes contact with the skin.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2024
The leaked substance - phosphorus oxychloride - was later contained.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2024
Wooden materials could nowhere be exposed to the weather, since selenium oxychloride is a very powerful oxidizing agent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Gilbert B. L. Smith of Brooklyn's Polytechnic Institute was referring to selenium oxychloride, a straw-colored liquid with which he has experimented for five years.
From Time Magazine Archive
It turns dirty violet on exposure to air and light; in moist air it absorbs oxygen and forms an oxychloride.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
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