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Is the chlorine gas that was just used by iraqi terrorists in any way related to chlorine in swimming pools?
Is the gas at all related to the liquid? If so, why is it so harmless as a liquid and harmful as a gas? If they're not related, why do they have the same name? I'm not trying to be stupid, I just know nothing about chemistry.
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- MortisLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yes and no, it is the same element but in different composition. Chlorine in its natural state is a gas that is highly corrisive and toxic, the stuff used in swimming pools is calcium hypochlorate a compound used for disinfecting. The concentration in swimming pools is low enough that it will not affect you.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine - Anonymous1 decade ago
The chlorine that is used in the pool is just as deadly as the gas, except the concentration used in the pool is very very low (1-2 ppm), so low that it is not harmful.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Yes, and the Zyclon gas used by the Nazis in the gas chambers. It's a sign of how sick and crazy the terrorists, and that's what they are-not 'insurgents', are.
There was a sheltered stack of bags of dry chlorine. Some got wet and started a white smoking cloud of poisonous gas floating up like a huge thick cloud causing evacuations and shelter in place warnings where I was in Fla.
- alwaysmooseLv 71 decade ago
Yeah. That's why they always say on the bottles of pool chlorine. DO NOT INHALE>