Chlorine is one of the most abundant naturally occurring chemical elements, playing an important and significant role in the manufacturing of thousands of products we depend on every day.
A pale green gas at normal temperature and pressure, chlorine is highly reactive and not found as a gas in nature. Instead, it appears as naturally occurring organochlorine compounds and salts.
Liquid chlorine is a clear amber-coloured mobile fluid and about one-and-one-half times the weight of water.
It evaporates extremely rapidly when spilled, one volume of liquid forming 460 volumes of gas and as a result, a liquid chlorine leak may be extremely hazardous as the quantity of chlorine given out is many times greater than that from a gaseous leak.
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