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Interesting Facts About Chlorine by Simon Hoyos Castro is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Chlorine is a greenish-yellow gas discovered in 1774 by Carl Wilhem Scheele. Humphry Davy proved it was an element and named it based on the Greek word for green. It is found in compounds like sodium chloride and is highly reactive. Chlorine has many uses including water purification, bleaching, and chemical production. Tennessine was discovered in 2010 by bombarding berkelium with calcium ions. It is extremely radioactive and unstable, decaying within milliseconds. Only a few atoms have been produced, so i
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- Simon Hoyos Castro
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