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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

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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. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.

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  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• YELLOWTOP
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• SUFFOCATIVE
  Tending or able to choke or stifle. "Suffocative catarrhs." Arbuthnot.
• COMPOUNDER
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• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• GREENISH
  Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
• COMMONLY
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• YELLOW
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• COMPOUND CONTROL
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• IMPORTANTLY
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• TIMESERVING
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• YELLOWBILL
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• ISOLATE
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• YELLOWWOOD
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• ABUNDANTLY
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• ABUNDANT
  Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. "Abundant in goodness and truth." Exod. xxxiv. 6. Abundant number , a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the
• BETIME; BETIMES
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• UNNATURE
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• SUFFOCATE
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• SOMETIMES
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• TIME SIGNATURE
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• ORNATURE
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• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.