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SWIMMING POOLS
Have you ever gone swimming? When you go in the pool you're swimming with chlorine. People put chlorine in the pool to kill bacteria and disease. That addition makes the pool clean for you so you won't get sick.
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MAKING PAPER
You know when you write on paper? They use chlorine to make paper. Scientists use chlorine to make paper white. It bleaches the paper of all color.
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BLEACH
Whenever you go to wash your clothes and you use bleach... That's chlorine you're using! Chlorine in bleach makes your white clothes really white. It also takes the color out of your darker clothes. That would be bad.
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WATER PURIFICATION
The next time you get a glass of water you should thank chlorine. Chlorine is use to clean the water that comes to your house.
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SALT
The salt on your table is made with chlorine. Scientists discovered that salt is made of one chlorine atom combined with one sodium atom. It's in the ocean first and then on your table.
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PLASTICS
Think about sprinkler systems. Whenever you put sprinklers in a yard people use white plastic pipes for the water. Those pipes are made using chlorine. It is a special plastic called PVC. That's poly-vinyl-chloride. Chloride is the element chlorine.
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