Chlorine
Chlorine is a chemical element with the 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 on the Pauling scale, behind only oxygen and fluorine. Chlorine played an important role in the experiments conducted by medieval alchemists, which commonly involved the heating of chloride salts like ammonium chloride …
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What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models …
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Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude explores this …
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In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday …
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Fate remains central to many cultural outlooks, and in our age of conflict, climate change, and pandemic, it features conspicuously in debates about the future. A careful examination of this …
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Sleep, and the lack of it, is a public obsession and an enormous everyday quandary. Troubled sleep tends to be seen as an individual problem and personal responsibility, to be …
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Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s life and legacy, preserved within …
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Migration Governance in North America engages the complex dynamics of mobilities across the continent. Situating North America within the global migration landscape, it unpacks such issues as temporary labour mobility, …
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Political equity advocates and academics often argue that we must elect more women, but what difference does it make if we do? What Women Represent shows that women can and …
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The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia Erhart explores how the film’s conception, production, and reception reveal …
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