halogen

See also: Halogen

English

Etymology

From ἅλς (háls), "salt" or "sea" + γεν- (gen-), "to produce" (coined by Berzelius in 1842).^[1]

Pronunciation

enPR: hăləjĕn
IPA^(key): /ˈhæləd͡ʒen/

Noun

halogen (plural halogens)

(chemistry) Any element of group 17, i.e. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and astatine, which form a salt by direct union with a metal.

Related terms

Translations

any element of group 7

Afrikaans: halogeen (af)
Armenian: հալոգեն (hy) (halogen)
Asturian: halóxenu m
Bulgarian: халоген m (halogen)
Catalan: halogen m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鹵素, 卤素 (lou⁵ sou³), 鹵族, 卤族 (lou⁵ zuk⁶) (group)

Mandarin: 鹵素 (zh), 卤素 (zh) (lǔsù), 鹵族 (zh), 卤族 (zh) (lǔzú) (group)

Min Dong: 鹵素, 卤素 (lū-só)

Min Nan: 鹵素, 卤素 (ló͘-sò͘)
Czech: halogen m
Dutch: halogeen (nl) n
Esperanto: halogeno
Estonian: halogeen
Finnish: halogeeni (fi)

French: halogène (fr) m
Galician: halóxeno m
German: Halogen (de) n
Greek: αλογόνο (el) n (alogóno)
Hungarian: halogén (hu)
Ido: halogeno (io)
Italian: alogeno (it) m
Japanese: ハロゲン (ja)
Latin: halogenus m
Latvian: halogēni m pl, sāļraži m pl
Polish: halogen (pl) m, fluorowiec m
Portuguese: halogênio m
Romanian: halogen (ro) m
Russian: галоге́н (ru) m (galogén)
Spanish: halógeno (es) m

Further reading

halogen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

↑ Online Etymology Dictionary halogen.

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