euchlorine

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English

Etymology

Compare French euchlorine. See euchloric.

Noun

euchlorine (uncountable)

  1. (mineralogy) A rare emerald-green sulfate mineral found as a natural sublimate in fumaroles around volcanic eruptions, and having the chemical formula KNaCu3(SO4)3O).
  2. (chemistry, archaic) A yellow or greenish-yellow gas, supposed to consist of chlorine dioxide with some free chlorine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “euchlorine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Further reading

  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Euchlorine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • “euchlorine”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
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