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Date Stock Title
Nov 1 OXY Exxon Mobil (XOM) Tops Q3 Earnings Estimates
Nov 1 OXY Billionaires John Overdeck and David Siegel Are Piling Into Artificial Intelligence (AI) Titan Nvidia and Dumping Shares of This Warren Buffett Favorite
Nov 1 OXY Oxy’s Hollub Drills Down on CrownRock Deal, More M&A, Net-zero Oil
Oct 31 OXY Occidental Petroleum (OXY) Stock Moves -0.12%: What You Should Know
Oct 31 WLK Westlake Corporation declares $0.4714 dividend
Oct 31 OXY Is Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) the Best Energy Stock To Buy According to Hedge Funds?
Oct 31 WLK Exploring Analyst Estimates for Westlake (WLK) Q3 Earnings, Beyond Revenue and EPS
Oct 30 OXY Exxon Mobil Is Both Cheaper And Better Than Occidental Petroleum
Oct 30 OXY OXY Trading at a Premium to Industry at 5.3X: How to Play the Stock
Oct 30 OXY Oil Prices Are Falling. Here's Why That's Becoming Less of a Concern for Occidental Petroleum.
Oct 29 WLK Analysts Estimate Westlake Chemical (WLK) to Report a Decline in Earnings: What to Look Out for
Oct 29 OXY This 7%-Yielding Dividend Stock Is Taking a Step to Capture a Slice of a Potentially $5 Trillion Opportunity
Oct 28 OXY Stocks to Watch Monday: Trump Media, Exxon Mobil, Chevron
Oct 28 OXY US Stocks Likely To Open In Green As Investors Eye 'Magnificent 7' Earnings This Week: Oil Prices Tumble, Expert Highlights Best 'Sell In May' Period Since 2009
Oct 28 OLN Olin's Q3 Earnings Miss, Revenues Surpass Estimates, Down Y/Y
Oct 27 OLN Olin price target lowered to $50 from $55 at JPMorgan
Oct 27 OLN Olin price target lowered to $48 from $55 at Citi
Oct 27 OLN Olin: The U.S. Army Contracts And Epoxy Segment Improvements Make It Cheap
Oct 27 OLN Olin Corporation: Update For 2024E, A 'Buy' But With A Note
Oct 27 OXY Want $1,000 in Dividend Income? Here's How Much You Have to Invest in Occidental Petroleum Stock.
Chlorine

Chlorine is a chemical element with symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly intermediate between them. Chlorine is a yellow-green gas at room temperature. It is an extremely reactive element and a strong oxidising agent: among the elements, it has the highest electron affinity and the third-highest electronegativity, behind only oxygen and fluorine.
The most common compound of chlorine, sodium chloride (common salt), has been known since ancient times. Around 1630, chlorine gas was first synthesised in a chemical reaction, but not recognised as a fundamentally important substance. Carl Wilhelm Scheele wrote a description of chlorine gas in 1774, supposing it to be an oxide of a new element. In 1809, chemists suggested that the gas might be a pure element, and this was confirmed by Sir Humphry Davy in 1810, who named it from Ancient Greek: χλωρός, translit. khlôros, lit. 'pale green' based on its colour.
Because of its great reactivity, all chlorine in the Earth's crust is in the form of ionic chloride compounds, which includes table salt. It is the second-most abundant halogen (after fluorine) and twenty-first most abundant chemical element in Earth's crust. These crustal deposits are nevertheless dwarfed by the huge reserves of chloride in seawater.
Elemental chlorine is commercially produced from brine by electrolysis. The high oxidising potential of elemental chlorine led to the development of commercial bleaches and disinfectants, and a reagent for many processes in the chemical industry. Chlorine is used in the manufacture of a wide range of consumer products, about two-thirds of them organic chemicals such as polyvinyl chloride, and many intermediates for the production of plastics and other end products which do not contain the element. As a common disinfectant, elemental chlorine and chlorine-generating compounds are used more directly in swimming pools to keep them clean and sanitary. Elemental chlorine at high concentrations is extremely dangerous and poisonous for all living organisms, and was used in World War I as the first gaseous chemical warfare agent.
In the form of chloride ions, chlorine is necessary to all known species of life. Other types of chlorine compounds are rare in living organisms, and artificially produced chlorinated organics range from inert to toxic. In the upper atmosphere, chlorine-containing organic molecules such as chlorofluorocarbons have been implicated in ozone depletion. Small quantities of elemental chlorine are generated by oxidation of chloride to hypochlorite in neutrophils as part of the immune response against bacteria.

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