Is Chlorine Gas a synthetic compound?

Answer 1

Diatomic chlorine is not synthetic, but it also does not usually occur naturally.

Please see.

http://www.americanchemistry.com/chlorine/

Answer 2

Yes and no. Chlorine is so reactive, that it is only found bound to other elements in nature. So, to produce chlorine gas, we have to start with something that has chlorine in it and run it through a process that breaks it free from the other atom(s) it was bound to. Since this process is being done by man, we say it's synthesized.

No, it's not a compound. Chlorine is an element; and although chlorine gas is a diatomic molecule, it's not a compound because it's not bound with a different element.

Answer 3

Yes, chlorine gas does not exist naturally; chlorine is only found in nature combined with other elements in compounds.

Answer 4

Lancenigo di Villorba (TV), Italy

YOU WROTE RIGHT.
In effect chlorine gas exist not in nature because it is TOO MANY REACTIVE.
It derive by industrial production, e.g. electrolysis of brine's solutions.
The following electrodic half-reactions show you the events :

a) 2 NaCl(aq) ---> Cl2(g) + 2 Na+(aq) + 2 e
(positive polarity, anode at graphite surface) ;
b) 2 H2O(l) + 2 Na+(aq) + 2e ---> H2(g) + 2 NaOH(aq)
(negative polarity, cathode at steel surface).

YOU WROTE BAD.
Chlorine is a chemical element, IT IS NOT A CHEMICAL COMPOUND.
In beginnings of XIX century, three great chemists stating this chemistry's TRUTH (e.g. two french as J. L. Gay-Lussac and J. Thènard, one english as sir H. Davy).

I hope this helps you.

Answer 5

yes it is