oxychloride
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The leaked substance - phosphorus oxychloride - was later contained.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2024
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
Many popular lines use bismuth oxychloride, a mineral byproduct of lead and copper processing.
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
When heated in a current of carbon dioxide it forms the oxychloride CbOCl3, and carbon monoxide.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
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