The chemical process of treating a substance with chlorine to form a chloride compound.
From 'chloridate' + '-tion' (noun-forming suffix). This technical term became standard in 19th-century chemical literature to describe converting elements into their chloride forms.
Chloridation is subtly different from chlorination—chloridation creates chloride salts, while chlorination adds chlorine broadly for disinfection purposes, but many people use the terms interchangeably (which technically annoys chemists).
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