History+Of+Chlorine

Chlorine is a greeish yellow element, that was discovered in 1774 by Carl Wilhelm Schelle, a swedish chemist. Schelle thought that chlorine was a hydrochloric acid, but he heated it up and discovered the greenish yellow element. Schelle did not establish chlorine as an element. In 1810 chlorine was named and classified as an element by Humphrey Davy. It was named after the Greek word chloros, which means pale green. TOC