Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1915 — Chlorine. [ARTICLE]

Chlorine.

Chlorine, which in its liquid form the Germans are said to be using in their poison bombs, owes its 1 discovery as an element, as well as its name, to a British scientist, Humphrey Davy. It was in 1810 that he found the inysterious gas to be undecomposable into other elements. Should we decide to flatter the Germans by imitating them there would be no difficulty in finding the chlorine. The earth and the sea are full of it, in the form of salt. It would indeed be difficult not to find chlorine—in one or other of its combinations—whenever one tried, in earth, air or water; but it would be impossible to find it anywhere except in alliance with another element. Workmen who split up common salt —chlorine of sodium—ln order to get the chlorine grow fat In the proget the chlorine, grow fat in the procay.—London Chronicle.’