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>Their innovations include a sweeping variety of now-ubiquitous chemicals, including ... chlorine Really? That's impressive, to have invented an element. Surel
by pvnick 11y ago
>Their innovations include a sweeping variety of now-ubiquitous chemicals, including ... chlorine
Really? That's impressive, to have invented an element. Surely this must be a method of storing and transporting chlorine and not the halogen itself.
- _delirium 11y agoYeah, I'm not sure where they got that part. Besides obviously not inventing the actual element, neither Dow nor Dupont were the first to produce chlorine, nor even the first to produce it on an industrial scale. And they didn't invent the main process by which it's produced (chloralkali process). It's kind of a throwaway sentence in the article though, so I doubt much research went into it.