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  2. Chlorine - Wikipedia

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    Chlorine is a chemical element; it has symbol Cl and atomic number 17. ... Chlorine dioxide (ClO 2) was the first chlorine oxide to be discovered in 1811 by Humphry ...

  3. Carl Wilhelm Scheele - Wikipedia

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    Carl Wilhelm Scheele (German:, Swedish: [ˈɧêːlɛ]; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786 [2]) was a German Swedish [3] pharmaceutical chemist.. Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, nitrogen, and chlorine, among others.

  4. Humphry Davy - Wikipedia

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    Chlorine. Chlorine was discovered in 1774 by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who called it "dephlogisticated marine acid" (see phlogiston theory) and mistakenly thought it contained oxygen. Davy showed that the acid of Scheele's substance, called at the time oxymuriatic acid, contained no oxygen.

  5. History of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Chlorine was discovered in 1774 by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who called it "dephlogisticated marine acid" (see phlogiston theory) and mistakenly thought it contained oxygen. Scheele observed several properties of chlorine gas, such as its bleaching effect on litmus, its deadly effect on insects, its yellow-green colour, and the ...

  6. Discovery of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    Perey discovered it as a decay product of 227 Ac. [177] Francium was the last element to be discovered in nature, rather than synthesized in the lab, although four of the "synthetic" elements that were discovered later (plutonium, neptunium, astatine, and promethium) were eventually found in trace amounts in nature as well. [178]

  7. Bleach - Wikipedia

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    Chlorine-based bleaches, which shortened that process from months to hours, were invented in Europe in the late 18th century. Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovered chlorine in 1774, [4] and in 1785 Savoyard scientist Claude Berthollet recognized that it could be used to bleach fabrics. [4]

  8. Atlanta residents told to shelter inside as chlorine fire ...

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    Earlier this week, the chlorine smoke closed schools and led to a shelter-in-place order for more than 90,000 residents east of Atlanta while some were told to evacuate after emergency officials ...

  9. Michael Faraday - Wikipedia

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    In 1820 Faraday reported the first synthesis of compounds made from carbon and chlorine, C 2 Cl 6 and CCl 4, and published his results the following year. [40] [41] [42] Faraday also determined the composition of the chlorine clathrate hydrate, which had been discovered by Humphry Davy in 1810.