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A RED oily liquid was detected by Bowen1 in a study of the photochemistry of chlorine dioxide. This substance was isolated by Bodenstein, Harteck and Padelt2 and was found by them to contain three atoms of oxygen to one of chlorine. Its molecular weight when dissolved in carbon tetrachloride was found to be 153–156 and it was called chlorine hexoxide (M.W. 167). The oxide has been found as a product in a large number of photochemical and thermal reactions3–12, but no determinations have been recorded of its molecular weight in the gaseous or pure liquid states. During a study of the physical properties of this oxide, we have found that in the gaseous state it exists entirely as ClO3, and that an equilibrium between this phase and the liquid phase is readily attained. A more complete report of this work will appear shortly elsewhere.
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GOODEVE, C., TODD, F. Chlorine Hexoxide and Chlorine Trioxide. Nature 132, 514–515 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132514b0
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