To treat or combine with chlorine; to introduce chlorine into a substance or system.
From chlor- (chlorine, from Greek khlōros) + -ize (verb-forming suffix), a standard modern chemistry term for introducing or reacting with chlorine.
Water companies chlorize drinking water daily to kill harmful bacteria—it's one of the most successful public health inventions ever, preventing millions of deaths from waterborne diseases since the early 1900s.
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