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
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
In the case just now assumed we arrive at the oxychloride; when, however, the metal and chlorine change places in the water molecule, the isomeric hypochlorous salts are the result.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various
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