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Cl Chlorine Yellow Green Orox Bottle Color Gas Chloros

Name Chlorine
Number 17
Symbol Cl
Memory sentence

Clorox. Yellow-green bottle, the color of chlorine gas ("chloros" means yellow-green in Greek). Cleans 17 ways (Clorox is sodium hypochlorite). Note that Clorox has no letter "h" making it easy to remember the abbreviation Cl.

Tags: group:17, period:3

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