There’s more to chlorine than just swimming pools

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It keeps your pools clean and safe, it’s half of the compound that makes up table salt, and — in its purest form – it can kill you.

And those are only three of the things chlorine can do.

“There are something like 15,000 chlorine-based chemicals that are used in industry,” says the BBC’s Justin Rowlatt.

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