Open AccessTRULY GREEN CHEMISTRY - CHLORINE'S CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND ITS PRESENTATION BY EXPERIMENTS ON A MINIATURISED SCALE
Author(s) -
Martin Wallau,
Daniela Bianchini,
Camila Porto Ebersol,
José Augusto dos Santos Júnior,
Thiago Marques Barboza
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
química nova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.214
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1678-7064
pISSN - 0100-4042
DOI - 10.5935/0100-4042.20140314
Subject(s) - chlorine , presentation (obstetrics) , scale (ratio) , chemistry , environmental chemistry , environmental science , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , engineering physics , materials science , engineering , organic chemistry , geography , cartography , medicine , radiology
Chlorine, one of the most frequent elements on earth and most important key chemicals, is indispensable in the syllabi of school and university courses in Inorganic Chemistry. However, its toxicity and high volatility preclude experimental demonstration of its properties in secondary and high schools and most university labs. This paper summarises the industrial role of chlorine and presents miniaturised experiments demonstrating some of the processes used in Industrial Inorganic Chemistry. Furthermore, experiments illustrating important concepts of Inorganic Chemistry such as Ion Bonding and Molecular Orbital Theory are describe