| In the early 1990s, 46 of the 145 pulp mills in Canada used various chlorine bleaching processes to whiten paper. |
| If the sodium atom loses one electron and the chlorine atoms gains one, the ions will have stable octets. |
| The halogens are a group of chemical elements that includes fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine. |
| In table salt, sodium atoms donate one electron each to chlorine atoms, making the sodiums positively charged ions and the chlorines negatively charged ions. |
| How toxic and persistent any one of them will be in the human body is determined by how many chlorines it has and where they reside. |
| Not only is there no special propensity for cancer causation among chlorines, the addition of chlorine can actually detoxify certain compounds. |
