ESSAY ON: Chlorine Gas

Number of Pages 6

This research paper: 6 pages in length. Chlorine – Atomic symbol of Cl with its distinguishable greenish-yellow color and 'swimming pool' odor – is both a highly toxic substance that kills in a very short time or a completely harmless chemical compound used to season food, depending upon its form and the secondary element with which it is mixed. When combined with sodium, chlorine becomes NaCl – or table salt – but at room temperature in its concentrated form, the gas emitted is so lethal that people within proximity will die from exposure. Used most commonly as a household cleaner and disinfectant (chlorine bleach) and swimming pool decontaminator, chlorine is drawn from the dissolved salt in seawater by way of an electric current running through the NaCl known as electrolysis. Bibliography lists 8 sources.


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