History

Histroy-Origin-Discovery of Chlorine


 * Discovered in 1774
 * Discovered by Carl Wilhelm Schele
 * Chlorine come from the Greek word chloros "greenish yellow"
 * Scheele was aware that chlorine was an element
 * However, believed for it containded oxegyn
 * Schelele believed for it to be a dephlogisticated marine gas
 * The confusion of ths was later made clear by Sir Humphry Davy In 1807