Chlorine Quotes

• 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.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Science, Water

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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

  Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

  Science, Important, Importance

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• 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!

  Auguste Laurent

  Science, Simple, Atoms

  David M. Knight, Auguste Laurent (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method”, Routledge

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• [Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine atoms is arrived at by a chess-board pattern of these atoms; it is a result of geometry and not of a pairing-off of the atoms.

  Henry Edward Armstrong

  Science, Numbers, Sodium

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• 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.

  Paul Newman

  Loss, Ozone, Years

  "Study: Despite efforts, ozone layer will take long time to heal" by Greg Lefevre, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2000.

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

  Patti Davis

  Summer, Children, Swimming

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

  Jimmy Carr

  Littles, Faces, Needs

  "QI". Comedy Panel Game, Series Four, Episode 01, September 29, 2006.

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• 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.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Country, Children, Women

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

  Jessica Stern

  Xenon, Stars, Noble

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• 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.

  James Patterson

  Swimming, Stuff, Be Kind

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• 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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Taken, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.5605, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Hydrogen, Etc, Chemistry

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• [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.

  George Wilson

  Tissues, Action, Impression

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• 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.

  Charles Clover

  Thinking, United States, Doe

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.301, Univ of California Press

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