euchlorine

English

Etymology

Compare French euchlorine. See euchloric.

Noun

euchlorine (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry, archaic) A yellow or greenish-yellow gas, supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for euchlorine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Further reading

  • “Euchlorine” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • euchlorine mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016
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