Assertion: chlorine dioxide's chlorine | /r/ObjectUse | used as germicide
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text: First used as a germicide to prevent the spread of "child bed fever" in the maternity wards of Vienna General Hospital in Austria in 1847, chlorine has been one of society's most potent weapons against a wide array of life-threatening infections, viruses, and bacteria for over 150 years.