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- prefix chemistry Forming names of chemical compounds which contain one or more
halogen atoms. - prefix Forming compound words with the sense of ‘sea, salt, salt water’.
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From halogen.
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Combining form of Ancient Greek ἅλς, ἁλός ‘sea, salt’.
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