Halogens

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chlorine \Chlo"rine\, n. [Gr. ? pale green, greenish yellow. So
     named from its color. See {Yellow}.] (Chem.)
     One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a
     greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air,
     of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and
     exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most


     important compound being common salt (Sodium chloride). It is
     powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol
     Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.
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     {Chlorine family}, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine,
        and iodine, called the {halogens}, and classed together
        from their common peculiarities.
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