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What does halogen mean?

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  1. (chemistry) Any element of group 17, i.e. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and astatine, which form a salt by direct union with a metal.
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When a halogen combines with another element, the resulting compound is called a halide.
Without their UV-blocking filters, quartz halogen lamps were observed to emit wavelengths even shorter than 250 nm.
Are they more the type you find hanging out around your polished granite benchtop with halogen downlighting perhaps?
On one side fields stretch out into blackness, but in front and to the right blaze thousands of halogen lamps.
Only by courting controversy has she managed to enjoy the halogen warmth of media attention.
I hop up to adjust the dimmer on the halogen lights, partly so we can absorb the honey glow and partly because of the novelty.

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