chlorine-dioxide

chlorine dioxide

noun
an orange, water-soluble, unstable, extremely explosive gas, ClO 2 , used chiefly as a bleaching agent for wood pulp, fats, oils, and flour.
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chlorine dioxide

noun
an explosive gas (ClO2) used chiefly in bleaching paper or starch or soap or flour and in water purification 
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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