Chlorine

** Chlorine(: ** ** By: kAyLa WilLiAms(:** Atomic Number: 17**


 * Protons: 17**


 * Electrons: 17**


 * Neutrons: 18**


 * Average Atomic Mass: ** **35.4527**

Discovery: discovered in** **1774** **by** **C. W. Scheele at Uppsala, Sweden.** ** Name: ** **In nature it is found in the combined state only, chiefly with sodium as common salt (NaCl), carnallite, and sylvite. Discovered in 1774 by Scheele, who thought it contained oxygen. Chlorine was named in 1810 by Davy, who insisted it was an element.**
 * Isotopes: Cl-35, Cl-36, Cl-37, Cl-38**

world over. Even the smallest water supplies are now usually chlorinated. It is also extensively used in the production of paper products, dyestuffs, textiles, petroleum products, medicines, antiseptics, insecticides, food, solvents, paints, plastics, and many other consumer products. Most of the chlorine produced is used in the manufacture of chlorinated compounds for sanitation, pulp bleaching, disinfectants, and textile processing. Further use is in the manufacture of chlorates, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, and in the extraction of bromine. Organic chemistry demands much from chlorine, both as an oxidizing agent and in substitution, since it often brings many desired properties in an organic compound when substituted for hydrogen, as in one form of synthetic rubber. **
 * Uses: Chlorine is widely used in making many everyday products. It is used for producing safe drinking water the

A highly irritating, greenish-yellow gaseous halogen, capable of combining with nearly all other elements, produced principally by electrolysis of sodium chloride and used widely to purify water, as a disinfectant and bleaching agent, and in the manufacture of many important compounds including chloroform and carbon tetrachloride. The most common uses of Chlorine are in Bleaches, Mustard gas, Water purification, Production of chlorates, Paper production, Antiseptic, Insecticides, Paint, Plastics and Medicines.**
 * Interesting Facts **** : The Element Chlorine is defined as...

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