An archaic or variant term for chlorine or a chlorine-containing substance.
From French chlore, from Greek chloros (green). This is an older form, largely replaced by the modern term 'chlorine' in English.
The word 'chlore' is a linguistic relic—it shows how English borrowed the green-related Greek root, but chemists eventually standardized 'chlorine' as the official name when the element was identified in 1810.
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