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Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of perhalogenate form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   Thoroughly halogenated: reacted with one or more halogens such that many hydrogen atoms have been replaced with those halogens. not-comparable

Etymology

By surface analysis, perhalogenate + -ed, or, by surface analysis, per- + halogenated.

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