Note 514 — Chapter XIV · OXIDATION AND REDUCTION REACTIONS. I
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The oxidation by chlorine may also be represented on the basis of the conception that the chlorine molecule contains a positive and a negative chlorine atom, Cl+Cl−. (Vide W. A. Noyes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 23, 460 (1901); Stieglitz, ibid., 23, 796 (1901); Walden, Z. phys. Chem., 43, 385 (1903); J. J. Thomson, Corpuscular Theory of Matter, p. 130 (1907)). We may consider the action to take place as follows: 2 Fe2+ + Cl+ → 2 Fe3+ + Cl−.