To convert or transform something into a chloride by adding or bonding chlorine to it.
From 'chlorid' + '-ate' (verb-forming suffix). Related to 'chloride,' this verb form emerged in 19th-century chemical laboratories as scientists systematized terminology for chemical reactions.
Before standardized chemical naming conventions, scientists would 'chloridate' compounds in their experiments without always agreeing on what to call the result—which is why we have so many synonym words that essentially mean the same thing.
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