Chlorine

Michael Johansen Chlorine Halogen, Located in: Group 17, Period 3, In the P Block Atomic Number: 17, Atomic Mass: 35.43 amu

Objective

Chlorine is looking for a job as a disinfectant in pools, homes, or schools. Chlorine’s ideal position is to be a chlorine tablet in pools (preferably the east coast in New Jersey). Chlorine would love to be a chlorine tablet in pools because chlorine is a powerful oxidant and it is used in bleaching and disinfectants. Chlorine is known to be a very dependable and reliable cleaning agent. Chlorine has been around for a very long time. Although chlorine was first studied in 1774 by the Swedish chemist Carl Scheele, the use of chlorine dates all the way back to 3000 BC, when it was used as sodium chloride (table salt), which is the most common compound of the element. The first compound of chlorine made was hydrochloric acid, and the Persian alchemist Rhazes created it around 900 AD. Than around 1200 AD, aqua regia, a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid began to be used to dissolve gold, and today it is still used to dissolve gold. The world found out chlorine’s cleaning powers in 1785, when it was used to bleach textiles, and from than on chorine became widely used as a cleaning agent. However, it was not until 1811 that Sir Humphry Davy named chlorine an element. It was named it chlorine because it is the same pale, yellowish green color that sick plants sometimes develop. Chlorine is very important to the world.

Honors and Awards

The element chlorine is known for its widespread use in different areas. Chlorine compounds are not only used as disinfectants. It is used for producing safe drinking water the world over, it is also used in the production of paper products, dyestuffs, textiles, petroleum products, medicines, antiseptics, insecticides, food, solvents, paints, plastics, and many other important products. Believe it or not, but chlorine gas is being used in wars such as the war in Iraq because it is a toxic and deadly gas. The element is useful to people because chlorine is used to produce consumer products from disinfectants to paper, and it essential to human life.

Experience and Skills

Chlorine has widespread use throughout the world, and as previously mentioned before it is used in creating products from paper to disinfectants.

References

Chlorine is an element that many other elements love because chlorine forms compounds with these elements. Some of chlorine friends include compounds with oxygen, carbon, magnesium, nitrogen, xenon, and krypton. These elements love chlorine became they come together with chlorine to form compounds that are important. For example, sodium combines with chlorine to form table salt, and carbon forms with chlorine to form a cleaning agent.

Citations

http://science.jrank.org/pages/1437/Chlorine-History-chlorine.html http://www.webelements.com/chlorine/ http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele017.html http://www.3rd1000.com/elements/Chlorine.htm