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chlorinated

adjectiveB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,362 of 15,258leans written

Chlorinated means treated with a chemical that kills germs. Chlorinated water, a chlorinated pool, chlorinated chicken.

The smell people call chlorine in a pool is not chlorine itself but chloramines, formed when it reacts with sweat and urine — so a strongly smelling pool is a dirty one. Chlorinated drinking water is one of the great public health measures of the last century.

Definitions of chlorinated

  1. 1adjectivechlorinatedTreated with a chemical that kills germs.B2+

    “My eyes sting after swimming in chlorinated water.”

chlorinated is a treatment.

Where it comes from

chlorinate comes from chlorine + -ate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Swimming & Diving

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chlorinated in the wild

  • Other types of chlorine compounds are rare in living organisms, and artificially produced chlorinated organics range from inert to toxic.

    Chlorine

  • TCPy or 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol is a cyclic hydrocarbon, specifically a chlorinated version of 2-pyridone.

    TCPy

  • Chlorine is most commonly found as inorganic chloride ions, or a number of chlorinated organic forms.

    Chlorine cycle

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.