Chlorine is a fundamental input to modern industry, yet most of today's supply still relies on energy-intensive electrolysis.

But critics have brought forth another image of chlorine and chlorinated compounds that are used in many products and industrial processes, including ubiquitous polyvinyl chloride plastics. For them, ...

This week's issue of C&EN contains the second "Point-Counterpoint" feature to appear in the magazine in the past year (see page 40). This one focuses on chlorine chemistry and the role chlorine should ...

In conjunction with National Drinking Water Week, the Chlorine Chemistry Council (CCC) introduced a new interactive tool, the Chlorine Tree (http://www.chlorinetree ...

Get a group of scientists together and mention the word "chlorine" and watch the sparks start to fly. That's exactly what happened at a forum on a different, but related, topic of sustainability, ...

Standard methods of predicting air pollution don’t take atmospheric chlorine into account, but the chemical could be responsible for 10 percent or more of daily ozone production in local air, research ...

On the summer smell-o-meter, chlorine is up there with barbecue smoke, coconut suntan oil and night-blooming jasmine as a sure sign of the season. In liquid and tablet form, it is synonymous with ...