X-Message-Number: 3922
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 23:08:27 -0800
From: John K Clark <>
Subject: Chlorine

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"Keith F. Lynch" <> Wrote:

		>> A chlorine atom in almost any molecule would love to grab
		>>hold of a homeless electron and become a chlorine ion.

	>No.  This is only true of Cl2 molecules or of isolated neutral
	>chlorine atoms
	
If you put Cl2 in water you get  HCl and  HOCl .  At any rate I
think you'd agree that a free electron would have a difficult
time in a salt solution, if for no other reason the Na+ ions
would love them, in fact that's the way free sodium and chlorine
are made commercially from salt.
	

				  John K Clark       

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