(Chiefly in passive.) [f. CHLORINE + -ATE3.] To act upon or impregnate with chlorine; to convert lime, soda, etc., into the so-called ‘chloride’ (sense 2); to treat gold or silver ore with chlorine, in order to extract the precious metal.
Hence Chlorinated ppl. a., as chlorinated lime, a recent name for the so-called ‘chloride of lime.’
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xv. 169. One salt-pork lamp with rusty chlorinated flame.
1876. Harley, Mat. Med. (ed. 6), 178. Chlorinated Lime was first prepared … in 1798.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 788. If the ore to be chlorinated contains finely-divided gold in quartz.
