While chlorine is used in the manufacturing of chemicals we use all the time such as paper, cloth and pesticides, it's more common use is to kill harmful bacteria in drinking water and swimming pool ...

Chlorine is a toxic gas used in disinfectants and cleaning products. Exposure causes eye, lung, and skin irritation, and lung fluid buildup. Children and asthma patients are at higher risk. No ...

Producing this critical item consumes vast amounts of electricity, with current electrodes relying on noble metals that are ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The same sanitizing agent used to rid federal office buildings of anthrax – chlorine dioxide gas – can effectively eliminate deadly bacteria from apples and other fruits and ...

An Olin Chemical chlorine leak last week that sent poisonous chlorine gas wafting into neighborhoods in Plaquemine and prompted 39 people to go to the hospital released an estimated 6,512 pounds of ...

An explosive new study has found that nearly 60 years after nuclear tests were performed in the Pacific Ocean, radioactive chlorine is still leaking from ice sheets in Antarctica. The research says ...

Chlorine is a common element in household cleaning and pesticide products. You’re probably most familiar with its use in pools to keep them free from bacteria and algae. It is naturally a gas but can ...

Army Sgt. Joshua Farbro walked into the ring of rapidly yellowing vegetation to investigate the booms echoing through Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana. Other soldiers reported a staccato of ...

When chlorine gas seeped out of the massive industrial complex in Brazosport on May 20 and traveled downwind toward surrounding communities such as Clute, Lake Jackson and Richwood, some residents ...

The north’s ‘health ministry’ issued an official denial that there had been a chlorine gas leak at the Teknecik power station in Kyrenia after four people had been hospitalised earlier in the week, ...