chlorine
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One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.
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According to Colwell, the clinic’s immediate needs include donations of unscented liquid laundry detergent, pee pads, hydrogen peroxide, unscented chlorine bleach, distilled water and canned cat and dog food.
According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, chlorine washes away your eyes‘ protective layers of tears, leaving them vulnerable to irritating chemicals and harmful bacteria.
Addition of fluorine and chlorine usually results in a flattening of the C 60 framework into a drum-shaped molecule.
A chlorine solution, particularly popular in Bolivia, is just one of several unproven treatments gaining ground in a region desperate for hope.
According to him, the agency sanitized 5, 000 wells in the metropolis with chlorine with a view to disinfecting them.
Airborne toxic materials may be gaseous (for example sulfur mustard and chlorine gas used in World War I) or particulates (such as many biological agents developed for weapons such as bacteria, viruses and toxins ).