Chlorine is the raw material for a huge number of chemical products in everyday life. Four million tons are produced annually in Germany alone. However, some chlorine compounds are both a blessing and a curse. Hermann Pütter looks at the various facets of this element. To the article about chlorine on the website FaszinationChemie.
In the Chlorine video from Periodic Videos, Martyn Poliakoff and his team describe the properties of chlorine and its inglorious role as a war gas in World War I. But they also show what happens when you mix hot iron with chlorine. (It's a mess, but we don't have to clean the trigger.)
The halogens form the 17th group of the periodic table. They include fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and the radioactive astatine.
Tennes, which does not occur naturally, was added a few years ago as element number 117. Tennes was first artificially generated a few years ago at the Dubna Nuclear Research Center near Moscow. Its name refers to the US state of Tennessee, home to another research center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where various heavy elements have been synthesized.
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