Chlorine
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Chlorine is a chemical element; it has symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly
Chlorine in bottle
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, discoverer of chlorine
Solid chlorine at −150 °C
Chlorine, liquefied under a pressure of 7.4 bar at room temperature, displayed in a quartz ampule embedded in acrylic glass
Bromine
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Bromine is a chemical element; it has symbol Br and atomic number 35. It is a volatile red-brown liquid at room temperature that evaporates readily to form a similarly coloured vapour. Its properties
Chlorine
…Chlorine is a chemical element; it has symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly intermediate between them. Chlorine is a yellow-green gas at room temperature. It is an extremely…
Liquid and gas bromine inside transparent cube
Antoine Balard, one of the discoverers of bromine
View of salt evaporation pans on the Dead Sea, where Jordan (right) and Israel (left) produce salt and bromine
Baltimore's Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower, originally part of the headquarters of Emerson Drug Company, which made Bromo-Seltzer