Poisoning chlorine

If the bleach is mixed with an acid, it can release poisonous chlorine gas. To prevent this from happening, commercial bleaches leave extra alkalies in the solution to keep the pH very high (pH 12). This small amount of extra lye in the solution, along with the caustic nature of the hypochlorite itself, is what eats away the cloth if undiluted bleach gets spilled on the clothing. 

My day job is as a civil service electrician for the last thirty-four years at the Veteran s Administration hospital. March 5, 2006,1 had thirty-four years with civil service. After duty at the VA hospital, all the rest is a volunteer as a firefighter, rescue worker, or helping the county sheriff and the State Highway Patrol as an interpreter. Basically, I stay pretty busy. The federal government gave us three fire vehicles after the chlorine gas incident because our old equipment was done-in by corrosion caused directly by poison chlorine gas. This gas took the paint and chrome off our fire vehicles so it was unusable for any other purpose what do you think it did to my lungs and body at the same time ... 

The atmosphere of the imaginary planet Xylo is made up entirely of poisonous chlorine gas, Cl2. The atmospheric pressure of this inhospitable planet is 155.0 kPa, and the temperature is 89°C. What is the density of the atmosphere ... 

Soon this boy added chemistry to hie list of hobbies. Through his father he met a friend who had a rich library and a private chemical laboratory where he obtained permission to work. He built voltaic piles out of zinc plates and some old Russian copper coins he had collected. The master of the German mint presented him with an old furnace in which, with the aid of his sister to blow the bellows, he would build a roaring fire. And while he experimented he burned his fingers with phosphorus, and on another occasion was almost killed when a flask containing poisonous chlorine cracked in his hands. 

If this were true, some asked, then why could not the greenish yellow color of poisonous chlorine be seen It was a logical and formidable question. Arrhenius answered that the chlorine ions differed from the atoms of chlorine because the ions were electrically charged. Dissociation had changed the atoms into ions, and the charge of electricity had changed the ion to such... 

Since it became clear that the direct use of chlorine in the bleaching of pulp and paper leads to highly poisonous chlorinated organic species in the waste water, chlorine dioxide is used instead in the so-called ECF (Elemental Chlorine Free) process. The competing process is the TCF (Total Chlorine Free) process, which uses peroxides [11],... 

Catalyst deactivation by poisoning (chlorine) was modeled by the following set of equations ... 

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Two poisons, chlorine gas and the soft, silver-white metal, sodium, combine to form table salt. 

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Another defining feature of a compound is that its properties are different from those of its component elements. Table 2.1 shows a striking example. Soft, silvery sodium metal and yellow-green, poisonous chlorine gas have very different properties from the compound they form—white, crystalline sodium chloride, or common table salt Unlike an element, a compound can be broken down into simpler substances—its component elements. For example, an electric current breaks down molten sodium chloride into metallic sodium and chlorine gas. Note that this breakdown is a chemical change, not a physical one. 

Thornton J (2000) Pandora s Poison. Chlorine, Health and a New Environmental Strategy. Cambridge, MA MIT Press. 

Caution. Mercury salts are poisonous. Chlorine fluorides are powerful oxidizers and fluorinators. Protective clothing and face masks must be worn at all times, and extreme care must be taken to avoid contact between the fluorides and oxidizable materials. 

Sodium Chlorite (NaC102) - Releases explosive, extremely poisonous chlorine dioxide gas upon contact with acid. 

Do you help with the housekeeping at home Do you clean your bathtub Do you use a commercial product intended just for that purpose Or bleach, or powdered cleanser It is important to know that you should never mix bleach and powdered cleanser together—doing so results in a chemical reaction that releases poisonous chlorine gas. The vapor from the reaction could do very serious damage to your lungs. 

Midland, Mich. Poisonous chlorine gas leak from chemical plant... 

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