Question

Meaning of Chlorine
What is chlorine?

Answer 1

chlorine is a yellow color liquid which is used to clean water and kills the microbes and is drinkable

Answer 2

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• Symbol - Cl
• Atomic mass - 35.453 u
• Atomic number - 17
• Discovered by - Carl Wilhelm Scheele
• Discovered in - 1774

${\underline{\sf{\blue{Uses\:Of\:Chlorine-}}}}$

• Chlorine is used in creating beach, dyes, paints and papers.

• Chlorine is used in sanitation of water so that it can be used in drinking.

• Chlorine is also used in cleaning swimming pools.

• It is also used in the production of drugs.

• Chlorine compounds is used in making NaCl ( Common salt).

• It is used in piping, tubing, flooring, siding, film, coatings, and many other products.

How's can we identify Chlorine?

1. Chlorine gas is greenish yellow with a sharp pungent choking odour.

2. The gas should have to turn moist blue litmus paper red and finally decolourising it.

3. The gas should have to turn moist starch iodide paper blue-black.

4. The gas when will get passed through AgNO3 solution should have to give a white precipitate of Silver chloride (AgCl).