When you go in the pool, you're swimming with chlorine. People put chlorine in the pool to kill bacteria and disease. That way the pool is clean for you and you won't get sick. Well they use chlorine to make paper.
Scientists use chlorine to make paper white.
It bleaches the paper of all color. Whenever you go to wash your clothes and you use bleach, that's chlorine you're using. Chlorine in bleach makes your white clothes really white. It also takes the color out of your darker clothes. The next time you get a glass of water out of the faucet, you should thank chlorine.