X-Message-Number: 3922 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 23:08:27 -0800 From: John K Clark <> Subject: Chlorine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.i iQCzAgUBL1LFsn03wfSpid95AQG8ewTwjoJtMZ+uAlUIOXsZgAE3z+58zR+JEA1u JEYivFJFbN82LzAhTCmbqRnq7MO3KCEpI3fqd5J5Ws3XGqy2rVLnO8T0PbyzDp1N RDBbpQhXg5MmN2BbzEFtY6B8SHV27kOEWras4P5Zxhw7tz0ZFSRO1UiUxV0gJ/6U Z9prDc45kGcj1dr46zv3UpLNugz60geI4rEE87kTa1DfyxwLub8= =U/FH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3922