Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An element in modern scientific compound words (chloro- before consonants), meaning ‘green’ or ‘greenish’ or ‘yellowish-green’ (see etymology). In some words it represents English chlorin.
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Examples
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The industry's average operating rate for plants that make the chemicals known as chlor-alkali climbed from 80 percent in October, The Chlorine Institute, based in Arlington
U.S. Chlorine Plant Operating Rate Rises to 84% in November - Bloomberg 2010
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Industries, such as chlor-alkali plants and paper pulp factories have been major industrial sources discharging mercury as waste into water bodies.
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Basic chemical raw material manufacturers such as chlor-alkali enterprises
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Position: President of the Chlorine Institute, an Arlington-based not-for-profit trade association of chlor-alkali producers, packagers, distributors, users and suppliers.
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Position: President of the Chlorine Institute, an Arlington-based not-for-profit trade association of chlor-alkali producers, packagers, distributors, users and suppliers.
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Apparently most caustic soda for years has been produced in industrial chlorine (chlor-alkali) plants, where it can be contaminated with mercury that it passes on to the HFCS, and then to consumers.
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Consumers Union recommends that the Food and Drug Administration investigate the use of mercury cell chlor-alkali plants in producing food-grade processing aids, and expand its current mercury surveillance program to test more foods and food ingredients, including high-fructose corn syrup, for mercury.
Mercury in high-fructose corn syrup: What it means for you 2009
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More information is needed about food ingredients that may be processed with agents made in mercury cell chlor-alkali plants and the potential for such processes to contaminate foods directly, or indirectly, through environmental releases.
Mercury in high-fructose corn syrup: What it means for you 2009
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In Canada, some regulations like chlor-alkali mercury release regulation under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act aim at direct reduction of mercury release.
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The impetus for the study was to find approximately 58 tons of mercury that was reported missing in 2000 (and it is assumed yearly) from the chlor-alkali plants (makers of chlorine and caustic soda) in operation in the U.S.
Paula Crossfield: Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Turning Us Into Mad Hatters? 2009
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