chlorinate

English

Etymology

Verb

chlorinate (third-person singular simple present chlorinates, present participle chlorinating, simple past and past participle chlorinated)

(transitive, chemistry) To add chlorine to (something, especially water, to purify it; or an auriferous substance, to extract gold from it).

Derived terms

Translations

to add chlorine to

Arabic: كلور‎ (kalwara)
Finnish: kloorata
French: chlorer (fr)
Galician: clorar (gl)
Ido: klorizar (io)

Italian: clorurare (it)
Spanish: clorinar
Swedish: klorera (sv)
Turkish: klorlamak (tr)

Anagrams

ectorhinal, trachelion

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