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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To treat or combine with a halogen.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To introduce a halogen atom into (a compound); especially, to substitute a halogen for hydrogen in an organic compound.
Wiktionary
- v. chemistry, transitive To treat with, or react with, a halogen or a hydrohalic acid.
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“For that matter, it would have been too late even when the discovery was made and action taken, if the industry had used primarily bromine, rather than chlorine, to halogenate fluorocarbon compounds for market purposes.”
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