It was Davy in 1810 who finally concluded that Scheele had made elemental chlorine. Chlorine is in group 17 of periodic table, also called the halogens, and is not found as the element in nature - ...

Chlorine is a halogen in group VII A of the periodic table with atomic number 17, an atomic weight of 35.45, and a density of 1.56 Mg/m 3. In the solid state it forms a tretragonal crystal with a ...