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  • noun Plural form of chloride.

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Examples

  • Since fishery salt generally originates from the sea, it contains impurities such as chlorides and sulphates of calcium and magnesium, and sodium sulphate and carbonates.

    Chapter 5 1982

  • Recent fish kills in northern West Virginia have caused increased scrutiny of these neglected discharges of pollutants such as chlorides, selenium, barium and cadmium.

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • Some of that chemical-laced water returns to the surface as a briny stew, carrying sulfates, chlorides, metals and naturally occurring radioactivity that the water picks up deep underground.

    Chesapeake Energy stops gas drilling to investigate Pennsylvania spill 2011

  • Here's why: Fake trees are manufactured using controversial polyvinyl chlorides or PVCs.

    A Cut Above Fake Fir Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • The one thing that can't be removed easily, except at great expense, he said, is the dissolved solids and chlorides that make the fluids so salty.

    State Allows Disposal Of 'Fracking' Pollution In Waterways AP 2011

  • Some of that chemical-laced water returns to the surface as a briny stew, carrying sulfates, chlorides, metals and naturally occurring radioactivity that the water picks up deep underground.

    Chesapeake Energy stops gas drilling to investigate Pennsylvania spill 2011

  • The one thing that can't be removed easily, except at great expense, he said, is the dissolved solids and chlorides that make the fluids so salty.

    State Allows Disposal Of 'Fracking' Pollution In Waterways AP 2011

  • DEP spokesman Dan Spadoni said the agency has taken water samples from Towanda Creek and a tributary to screen for chlorides, sulfates, arsenic, barium, iron, magnesium and strontium.

    Chesapeake Energy stops gas drilling to investigate Pennsylvania spill 2011

  • Lloyd's discovery of the "death bacillus" of the sea toad, and his experiments on it with potassium cyanide, sent his name and that of his university ringing round the world; nor was Paul a whit behind when he succeeded in producing laboratory colloids exhibiting amoeba-like activities, and when he cast new light upon the processes of fertilization through his startling experiments with simple sodium chlorides and magnesium solutions on low forms of marine life.

    Moon Face:The Shadow and the Flash 2010

  • DEP spokesman Dan Spadoni said the agency has taken water samples from Towanda Creek and a tributary to screen for chlorides, sulfates, arsenic, barium, iron, magnesium and strontium.

    Chesapeake Energy stops gas drilling to investigate Pennsylvania spill 2011

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