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.
2007-03-17 20:23:50 · 4 answers · asked by lb 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
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.
2007-03-17 20:35:00 · answer #1 · answered by Mortis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-03-17 20:31:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-03-17 20:39:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. That's why they always say on the bottles of pool chlorine. DO NOT INHALE>
2007-03-17 20:26:48 · answer #4 · answered by alwaysmoose 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋