Definitions for halogens

halogens hal·o·gen

Spelling: [hal-uh-juh n, -jen, hey-l Halogens is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 376 anagrams from letters in halogens (aeghlnos).

Definitions for halogens

noun

  1. any of the electronegative elements, fluorine, chlorine, iodine, bromine, and astatine, that form binary salts by direct union with metals.

Origin of halogens

First recorded in 1835-45; halo- + -gen

Examples for halogens

The same absorbent quantitatively takes up any halogen and sulphur which may be present.

halogen, hal′o-jen, n. a substance which by combination with a metal forms a saline compound.

The products in question have the characteristics of solid solutions of the halogen.

It combines with the halogen elements with great energy, burning brilliantly in chlorine to form antimony trichloride (SbCl3).

It is decomposed by the halogen elements and also by sulphuretted hydrogen.

The light of halogen lamps is slightly more “whiteish” than incandescent lamps.

The same as Method 1, except that after ignition of the saponified mixture the halogen was determined by weighing as silver iodid.

Compounds containing oxides and fluorides, &c., do not lend themselves to the method of determining the halogen by difference.

halogens do not act directly on water, hence we may not properly speak of halogen substitution products.

The halogen compounds of mercury, we should have mentioned, also sublime, the red iodide giving a yellow sublimate.

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