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n. - A compound containing two chlorine atoms per molecule.

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  • Straits director Eric Lim said an ethylene dichloride (EDC) plant was in the planning stages and would be budgeted for separately.
  • These are known as acetylene dichloride and tetrachloride respectively, or more systematically as dichlorethylene and tetrachlorethane.
  • At DuPont I shared a lab with the remarkable Fred Tebbe, who was studying, among other things, reactions of ethyl aluminum reagents with titanocene dichloride.
  • His most important and surprising discovery was what has become known as Tebbe's reagent, a species made through the reaction of titanocene dichloride with...
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