selenium oxychloride

noun

: a vesicant liquid compound SeOCl₂ that is made usually by reaction of selenium dioxide and hydrogen chloride or by chlorination of a mixture of selenium and selenium dioxide, that has a high dielectric constant, and that is used chiefly as a solvent

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