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Is chlorine naturally occurring

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Under standard temperature and pressure, elemental fluorine is a yellowish gas. However, fluorine is exceedingly reactive, and thus in nature it is always found bound to other elements, commonly in salts as the fluoride ion (F-).

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no it does not

but it can be extracted from cryolite (na3alf6)

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Fluorine occurs in nature, but not in its elemental state; it is found in compounds.

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Elemenal chlorine does not occur naturally, but its anionic form, chloride ions, is widely distributed in nature.

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everywhere everywhere

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