halogen

Senso (Inglese)

1. Any element of group 17, i.e. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine and tennessine.
2. A light fixture in which the filament is surrounded by an atmosphere of a halogen gas.

Concetti

alogeno

sinonimi

halide

haloid

Traduzioni

Halogen

halogène

halógeno

halogeen

αλογόνο

halogen

halogênio

halogéneo

halogêneo

halojen

الهلوجين

halogen

هالُوجِين

αλαγόνο

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈhæl.ə.d͡ʒən/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt" or "sea”) + γεν- (gen-), "to produce" (coined by Berzelius in 1842). By surface analysis, halo- (“salt”) + -gen (“forming”).