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Re:Making steel without emitting CO2 by DennisP on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @10:38PM (#39284181)
I did some quick searches thinking I'd find we produce vastly more iron than chlorine, and we surprised to learn that we only use sixteen times more iron.
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Re:Making steel without emitting CO2 by fnordpiglet on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @11:44PM (#39284585)
Being so reactive I imagine. If chlorine were much much cheaper we would find many more uses.
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Re:Making steel without emitting CO2 by lucioperca on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:24AM (#39285957)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinyl_chloride

Big use-case, problem is that in case of fire lots of dioxins are produced.

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