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oxychloride

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[ok-si-klawr-ahyd, -id, -klohr-] / ˌɒk sɪˈklɔr aɪd, -ɪd, -ˈkloʊr- /

noun

Chemistry.
  1. a compound having oxygen and chlorine atoms bonded to another element, as bismuth oxychloride, BiOCl.


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Etymology

Origin of oxychloride

First recorded in 1855–60; oxy- 2 + chloride

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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

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

Wooden materials could nowhere be exposed to the weather, since selenium oxychloride is a very powerful oxidizing agent.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chloride of calcium employed in proportion of one equivalent for three of the total calcium is most convenient for the formation of oxychloride of calcium.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 by Various

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