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Is chlorine acid or alkaline

Updated: 8/11/2023
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Chlorine is an element; chlorine / chloride ion is a BASE

Chlorine for swimming pool usage is made to be Chlorine neutral (7,0) as to not raise or lower the pH.

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Chlorine the element itself is neither an acid nor a base. However, it will react with water to form hydrochloric and hypochlorous acids

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Chloride (Cl -1) is a negligible conjugate base because it dissociates from the strong acid HCl.

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No, chlorine is an element, acids are a category of compounds. Elements are never acids.

It is a strong oxidizing agent, however.

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Is chlorine acid or alkaline based?

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it would be an acid

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It's an acid.

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Acid

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