To treat or combine with chlorine, especially to add chlorine atoms to an organic compound.
From chloro- + -ize (to cause to become). Modern formation following chemical terminology conventions for describing reactions.
Chlorodizing is one of the chemist's favorite tricks—take almost any organic molecule and chlorodize it, and you've likely changed its properties dramatically, making it more stable, more reactive, or better at killing microbes!
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