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GUPTA: While chlorine's effects are immediately caustic, the ease of its detection may have kept the number of casualties relatively low.
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Atmospheric aerosols (particles with radii of 1µm or less) can reflect sunlight and provide a surface area for chemical reactions to occur (e.g., they enhance chlorine's ability to destroy ozone), and water condenses on their surface to modify cloud particles.
Ars Technica Yun Xie 2011
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The fact that chlorine can be manufactured fairly easily raises the potential (albeit with issues, given chlorine's toxicity) for local industry to supply such water purification.
NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit 2010
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The chlorine's disinfectant effects may have been weakened by the higher pH of concrete and by the tendency of plastic to absorb chlorine.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Those chlor-alkali production cutbacks, however, have also meant less output of chlorine's co-product, caustic soda.
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Anyone who is naturally blonde may be haunted by childhood holiday disasters - chlorine's magical powers ruining hair colour.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The chlorine's disinfectant effects may have been weakened by the higher pH of concrete and by the tendency of plastic to absorb chlorine.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Those chlor-alkali production cutbacks, however, have also meant less output of chlorine's co-product, caustic soda.
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The chlorine's disinfectant effects may have been weakened by the higher pH of concrete and by the tendency of plastic to absorb chlorine.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Anyone who is naturally blonde may be haunted by childhood holiday disasters - chlorine's magical powers ruining hair colour.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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