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“There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification.”

Water Public Health Drinking Water Chlorine Chloride Of Lime Disinfection The Chlorine Revolution

Author:Charles-Edward A. Winslow

“When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.”

Children Hair Summer Swimming Perfume Summer Days Chlorine

Author:Patti Davis

“In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are introduced.”

Certain Type Equal Etc Chemistry Volume Hydrogen Organic Chemistry Chlorine

Author:Jean-Baptiste Dumas

“I have never seen a food writer mention this, but all shrimp imported into the United States must first be washed in chlorine bleach to kill bugs. What this does for the taste, I do not know, but I think we should be told.”

Thinking Knows Should Firsts Doe States United United States Taste Bugs Bleach Shrimp Chlorine

Book:The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

“Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.”

Kind Seems Stuff Be Kind Swimming Pool Sock Explosives Swimming Pool Chlorine

Book:The Angel Experiment

Source: The Angel Experiment

“Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry.”

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius!”

Knows Important Science Importance Property Chlorine

Author:Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

“Let's face it, the gene pool needs a little chlorine.”

Needs Littles Faces Pool Genes Chlorine

Author:Jimmy Carr

“One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.”

Knows Children Country Women Born Deals Air Six Breaths Plant Toxic Autism Coal Symptoms Epidemics Mercury Chlorine

Author:Daphne Zuniga

“I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.”

Stars Noble Lament Chlorine Xenon

Author:Jessica Stern

“[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action.”

Action Impression Colour Exposed Laboratory Tissues Chemist Chlorine

Author:George Wilson

“We've polluted the stratosphere with these chlorine and bromine compounds, and because it's now colder, and because we have this change in the climate, we're getting more ozone loss than we would have gotten in a normal year.”

Years Loss Normal Climate Environmental Compounds Ozone Chlorine

Author:Paul Newman

“I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!”

Science Simple Worthy Formulas Chemicals Atoms Associates Corrections Hydrogen Chlorine

Book:The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method

Source: The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method