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
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
Many popular lines use bismuth oxychloride, a mineral byproduct of lead and copper processing.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the amorphous state it is a dull green, almost infusible powder, but as obtained from chromium oxychloride it is deposited in the form of dark green hexagonal crystals of specific gravity 5.2.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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