During the last half of the 19th century, chlorine, used almost exclusively in the textile and paper industry, was made [1] by reacting manganese dioxide with hydrochloric acid 1$$MnO_2 + 4HCl\xrightarrow{{100 - 110^\circ C}}MnCl_2 + Cl_2 + 2H_2 O$$
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O’Brien, T. F., Bommaraju, T. V., & Hine, F. (2005). History of the Chlor-Alkali Industry. In Handbook of Chlor-Alkali Technology (pp. 17–36). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48624-5_2
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