Periodic-als Element Research

Element Selected:
Chlorine
Why did you select this element:
I just chose my element based on the card ms.
parsons had given me on monday. I can also understand chlorine a bit. It
doesn't sound complicated or confusing at all.
Basic Info:
Element Name:
Chlorine
Element Symbol:
Cl
Atomic Number:
17
Atomic Mass:
35.453
Element Classification (metal, nonmetal, gas):
nonmetal/gas But can exist in
solid form
Period:
3rd period
Group:
7A
Density:
3.214 g/l
Atomic Radius:
79 pm
Melting Point:
-150.7
Boiling Point:
-29.27
Electronegativity:
3.16
2 5
Electron Configuration:
[Ne]3s
3p
37
Number of Stable Isotopes (if any):
2 stable isotopes
: 35
Cl
,
Cl

What does the name mean? (usually in Greek):

Chloros meaning pale green

Source for Basic Info

Title:
periodictable.com
MLA Citation:
"TechnicalDataforChlorine."
TechnicalDatafortheElement
ChlorineinthePeriodicTable
.N.p.,n.d.Web.16Sept.2014.

Element Facts Source 1

Source 1 Title:
Rsc.org
MLA Citation
:
"Chlorine."
ElementInformation,PropertiesandUses
.N.p.,n.d.Web.16
Sept.2014.
History Facts
1. The symbol is a version of a generic hazard warning associated with
the toxic nature of the gas.
2. Chlorine killed soldiers in WWI.
3. was first produced in 1774 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele at Uppsala,
Sweden, by heating hydrochloric acid with the mineral pyrolusite
4. Humphry Davy investigated it in 1807 and eventually concluded not
only that it was a simple substance, but that it was truly an element
5. took 10 years for scientists to finally accept chlorine as an element
Uses Facts
1. purifies drinking water, swimming pools, and many consumer
products
2. used to produce bleaches, chlorates, chloroform, carbon
tetrachloride and bromine
3. organic chemistry, both as an oxidising agent and in substitution
reactions.
4. as a free element, very poisonous, and was used for weaponry

Properties Facts

1. Chlorine changes from a gas into a liquid at a temperature of -34.05C

(-29.29F) and from a liquid to a solid at -101.00C (-149.80F).
2. The gas is soluble (dissolvable) in water.
3. reacts chemically with water as it dissolves to form hydrochloric acid
(HCl) and hypochlorous acid (HOCl).
4. Chlorine is a dense gas with a density of 3.21 grams per liter

Element Facts Source 2

Source 2 Title:
educatinjlab.org, and encyclopedia.com
MLA Citation:
Chlorine (revised)." Chemical Elements: From Carbon to
Krypton. 2006, "chlorine." & The Element Chlorine."
It's Elemental -
. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2014.
History Facts
6. Scheele thought the resulting gas(chlorine) contained oxygen at first.
7. chlorine means cloro in spanish
8. Humphry Davy also named the element.
9. Today, most chlorine is produced through the electrolysis of aqueous
sodium chloride
10.

Liquid chlorine burns the skin and gaseous chlorine irritates the

mucus membranes.
Uses Facts

5. Sodium chloride, commonly known as table salt, is used to season

food and in some industrial processes
6. paper products,
7. plastics
8. medicines, antiseptics,
9. paints.

Properties Facts
5. Chlorine is a very active element.
6. combines with all elements except the noble gases
7. The reaction between chlorine and other elements can often be
vigorous
8. Chlorine does not burn but, like oxygen, it helps other substances
bum. Chlorine is a strong oxidizing agent