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Environmental behaviour of chlorinated compounds

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Chlorine and the Environment

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The carbon-chlorine bond is slightly stronger than the carbon-hydrogen bond and the chlorine atom does not sustain combustion as effectively as the hydrogen molecule. The considerably larger relative size of the chlorine molecule makes access for molecular-level attack on the carbon-carbon bonds physically difficult. These properties confer a high degree of chemical stability and flame resistance, particularly among the more highly chlorinated species. The resistance to degradation of many of the organochlorines was one of the qualities that made them popular and useful in industrial applications, but this also the root of many of their environmental problems since some of them may remain in the environment for tens or hundreds of years. Others, although broken down more quickly, are converted to other organochlorines with different, but no less harmful, properties.

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