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Question
Write any two uses of Chlorine.
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Solution
Uses of chlorine:
- Large quantities of chlorine are used industrially for bleaching wood pulp (required for the manufacture of paper and rayon), bleaching cotton and textiles.
- It is used in the extraction of gold and platinum.
- It is used for the manufacture of dyes, drugs and organic compounds such as CCl4, CHCl3, refrigerants, etc.
- It is used in sterilising drinking water.
- It is used in preparation of poisonous gases such as phosgene (COCl2), tear gas (CCl3NO2), mustard gas (Cl.C2H4-S - C2H4Cl).
- It is used in the manufacture of DDT and BHC which are important insecticide.
- It is used in the manufacture of vinyl chloride which is starting material for polyvinyl chloride plastics.
- It is used in the manufacture of bleaching powder, aluminium chloride, hydrogen chloride, hypochlorites, chlorates, perchlorates, etc., which are important industrial compounds.
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