ロンドン王立協会哲学論文集第101巻1811年 "The Balerian Lecture. On some of the Combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygene, and on the chemical Relations of these Principles, to inflammable Bodies. By Humphry Davy, Esq. LL.D.Sec. R.S. Prof. Chem.R.I."[1]P.32、によれば「"After consulting some of the most eminent chemical philosophers in this country, it has been judged most proper to suggest a name founded upon one of its obvious and characteristic properties – its colour, and to call it Chlorine, or Chloric gas.* *From χλωρος."」とある。
