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Definition: Halogen |
HalogenNoun1. Any of the chemical elements fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Halogen \Hal"o*gen\, noun. [from Greek expression "a`ls, "alo`s, salt -gen: compare to the French expression halog[`e]ne.]. (references) |
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Environment | A type of incandescent lamp with higher energy-efficiency that standard ones. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The halogens are a chemical series. They are the elements in Group 7 (old-style: VII or VIIA) of the Periodic Table: fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine. The word comes from Greek roots meaning "salt" and "creator".These elements are diatomic molecules in their natural form. They require one more electron to fill their outer electron shells, and so have a tendency to form a singly-charged negative ion. This negative ion is referred to as a halide ion; salts containing these ions are known as halides.
Many synthetic organic compounds, and a few natural ones, contain halogen atoms; these are known as halogenated compounds. Thyroid hormones contain iodide atoms. Chloride ions play a key role in brain function by mediating the action of the inhibitory transmitter GABA.
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Crosswords: Halogen |
| English words defined with "halogen": acid halide, acyl halide, alkyl halide, astatine, At ♦ -ate ♦ atomic number 85 ♦ carbon tetrahalide ♦ -gen ♦ halide, haloalkane, haloform, Halogenous, Haloid salt, halon ♦ Methyl violet ♦ Salogen ♦ tetrahalide. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "halogen": Fluorocarbons ♦ halogen-quenched counter tube ♦ Trihalomethanes, Tungsten Halogen Lamp. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Halogen" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (halogen), German (halogen), Romanian (halogen), Serbo-Croatian (halogen), Swedish (halogen). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dr. Robert H. Huffaker is testing what will be an air-tight cabinet, by introducing Freon gas, and using a GE Halogen gas detector in order to detect any leakage of the contained gas. Credit: CDC. |
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| "Self portrait 1" by Matt Williams Commentary: "Me, playing with a halogen desk light." |
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Business | Recently, improvements in outdoor advertising, such as neon, quartz, halogen lighting and transport automobiles has emerged. (references) | |
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| "Halogen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Halogen" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 61 | 43,149 |
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Expressions using "halogen": halogen lamp ♦ halogen light. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "halogen": halogen-quenched. | |
Ending with "halogen": quartz-halogen. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "halogen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | halopgjen. (various references) | |
Arabic | الهالوجين مولد الملح. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | халоген, елемент от халогенната група. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鹵 (brine, crass, salt), 卤素 (halogens). (various references) | |
Czech | halogen. (various references) | |
Danish | halogen. (various references) | |
Dutch | halogeen. (various references) | |
Finnish | halogeenilaskuriputki (halogen-quenched counter tube). (various references) | |
French | halogène. (various references) | |
German | Halogen. (various references) | |
Greek | αλαγόνο, αλογόνο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | halogén. (various references) | |
Italian | alogeno. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ハロー効果 (Halloween, halo effect). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ハロゲン . (various references) | |
Korean | 할로겐 (halide, halogens). (various references) | |
Manx | hallageen. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alogenhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | halogéneo. (various references) | |
Romanian | halogen. (various references) | |
Russian | галоген. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | halogen. (various references) | |
Spanish | halógeno. (various references) | |
Swedish | halogen. (various references) | |
Turkish | halojen, madenlerle birleşince tuz verebilen element. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "halogen": halogenate, halogenated, halogenates, halogenating, halogenation, halogenations, halogenous, halogens. (additional references) | |
Words containing "halogen": nonhalogenated. (additional references) | |
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"Halogen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balogun, Calogen, haligen, hallogen, hallowen, halog, Halogena, halogenic, Halonen, haloween, halowen, Heiligen, Heligan, heogan, Latlogan. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "halogen" (pronounced ha"lujun) |
| 4 | -u j u n | antigen, carcinogen, estrogen, glycogen, hydrogen, nitrogen, origin, oxygen, pathogen, plasminogen. |
| 3 | -j u n | allergen, bludgeon, burgeon, collegian, contagion, curmudgeon, dudgeon, dungeon, engine, gudgeon, imagine, legion, margin, neurosurgeon, pigeon, region, religion, smidgen, sturgeon, surgeon, trudgen, virgin. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: enhalo. | |
-2 letters: agone, alone, along, angel, angle, anole, genoa, glean, haole, hogan, logan, longe. | |
-3 letters: aeon, agon, aloe, egal, elan, enol, gaen, gale, gane, gaol, glen, goal, gone, haen, hale, halo, hang, heal, helo, hole, hone, hong, lane, lang, lean, leno, loan, loge, lone, long, noel, ogle, olea. | |
-4 letters: age, ago, ale, ane, ego. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-l-n-o" | |
+1 letter: halogens, headlong, hyalogen, longhead. | |
+2 letters: chalcogen, enhaloing, halogeton, hexagonal, hyalogens, longheads. | |
+3 letters: alongshore, anglophone, chalcogens, gonorrheal, halogenate, halogenous, halogetons, heptagonal, longhaired, longheaded, theologian. | |
+4 letters: anthologies, anthologize, archegonial, glutathione, halogenated, halogenates, hexagonally, overhauling, theologians, wholesaling. | |
+5 letters: anthologized, anthologizer, anthologizes, chalcogenide, ethnological, geotechnical, glutathiones, hallucinogen, halogenating, halogenation, longshoreman, overhandling, phenological, slaveholding, snaggletooth, stranglehold. | |
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