Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts |  In April 1915, the Germans sent thick, yellowish green mists of chlorine gas wafting over the French dugouts. Later that year, the British killed 2,000 of their own men with the same gas when the wind changed direction. Some of the troops on both sides got gas masks. Hot and cumbersome, the masks didn't work well.
Chlorine gas arrived in thick, yellowish-green clouds that left soldiers unable to see or move. But these mists could be detected from a distance and thus, with luck and a fair wind, avoided. Mustard gas proved far more insidious. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts |  The formation of magnesium chloride can be thought of as a result from a reaction involving magnesium metal (Mg) and chlorine gas, Clr The reaction involves the following simultaneous processes:
1. The Oxidation of Magnesium Metal. A magnesium atom loses its 2 outer-shell electrons to become a magnesium ion, (i.e. cation). The magnesium metal is said to be oxidized. magr&esSum atom loses two outer electrons magnesium nt\ has a complete octet of electrons (is 2s 2|F}
The Reduction of chlorine gas. The covalently bonded Cl2 molecule gains two electrons to become two chloride ions, (i.e. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The Yale researchers studied chlorine gas, mustard gas, and the other major warfare agents. By 1920, the Yale University Press had already published ("with the consent of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army, and the Director, Chemical Warfare Service," as it notes on its title page) M. C. Winternitz's impressive tome, Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning, complete with forty-one elaborately colored plates.77
This was not, however, the last word on the subject. By 1933, both the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service and the U.S. Veterans Administration had been established. | | His own personal experience in earlier civilian life would have well placed such a soldier to instruct his mates in self-protection from chlorine gas.
The gas attacks came as a complete surprise to the Allies. They were not even certain that chlorine was the substance that had been used. There was no technology in the field to collect the gas for later analysis, although chloride deposits on the buttons of the most heavily gassed soldiers seemed to confirm the suspicion that chlorine was indeed the toxin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  If you know anybody who works on pools, or who has a pool maintenance business, they will tell you that chlorine gas will kill you. In fact, just to handle chlorine, they have to wear protective rubber gloves and protective respiration devices, because if they get chlorine powder wet and touch it or inhale it, they are in for a world of hurt. chlorine gas can cause serious injury or even death. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts | | Maybe he combined chlorine bleach with ammonia, releasing chlorine gas. Whatever it was, something in the wastes he dumped reacted with those already in the pit and Jackson was overcome. He died instantly. Public notice of his death was one of the first things to bring attention to the need for some kind of law to protect people from toxic trash.11
Florence and I are joined by Dean A. Wilson, who offers ecotours of the wilderness around Bayou Sorrel, not your usual hook-em and shoot-em trip to the swamps. We cruise slowly over the water in his swamp buggy. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Then, at age twenty-one, he was overcome by chlorine gas while working in a sewage treatment plant. His symptoms at the time were much like those of a World War I gassing victim: coughing up blood, trying to catch his breath, wheezing. The wheezing never left.71
The medical researchers interested in RADS had the opportunity to exploit a "natural experiment." They were aware that workers in pulp paper mills and other chlorine-handling industries are intermittently gassed with either chlorine or chlorine dioxide. | | Aerosol sprays make it possible to generate a fine mist of hypochlorite bleach without ever having to produce chlorine gas through combination reactions. New household rust removers containing hydrofluoric acid allow the unintentional home chemist to manufacture highly irritant fluorine gas along with chlorine. Acetic, oxalic, phosphoric, and muriatic acids for cleaning tiles, tubs, and surfaces provide a veritable smotgasbord of agents that can facilitate custodial misadventure. | | Industrial releases and freight train derailments proved not to be the only sources of public danger from chlorine. In 1981, a municipal water treatment facility in Zaragoza, Spain, released compressed chlorine gas, injuring 164, of whom 76 were children.67 In 1982, the Southern Medical Journal published details of a group of four victims exposed in a chlorina-tion mishap in a public swimming pool. | | The industrial chemistry and technology of manufacturing and handling chlorine gas, developed for bleaching in the nineteenth century, had far-reaching effects in the first half of the twentieth century. The work with chlorine was the proving ground for battlefield chemical warfare in World War I, and it ultimately inspired the research and development that facilitated mass civilian extermination in World War II. But the technology of bleaching itself did not remain static. With innovations came additional health concerns. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  In another area, not far away, a chemical plant processes chlorine gas. It was so close to Manhattan, the Empire State Building served as a backdrop. It was eerie.
"If you consider that right now refineries in America are operating at near capacity, imagine what would happen to our economy, including the price of oil on the world market, if one or two refineries in this area were attacked and rendered inoperable," Haplea said. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts | | Sum atom loses two outer electrons magnesium nt\ has a complete octet of electrons (is 2s 2|F}
The Reduction of chlorine gas. The covalently bonded Cl2 molecule gains two electrons to become two chloride ions, (i.e. anions). Chlorine is said to be reduced. chlorine gains an outer electron to form the chloride »ors.
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4. Combining the above oxidation and reduction processes, the overall effect is the transfer of TWO electrons from magnesium to chlorine. mm ???
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Luca Turin
See book keywords and concepts |  This is precisely what happens when sodium metal (that shiny butter one cuts with a knife in chemistry lessons) and chlorine gas (nasty, heavy, yellow gas) meet up. They instantly strike this one-electron deal, and thereafter peacefully coexist as sodium chloride, or table salt.
Incidentally, the reason the table of the elements is called periodic is because elements which have the same number of electrons in their outer orbits will behave similarly. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | In fact, just to handle chlorine, they have to wear protective rubber gloves and protective respiration devices, because if they get chlorine powder wet and touch it or inhale it, they are in for a world of hurt. chlorine gas can cause serious injury or even death. In fact, if you just take household ingredients like chlorine bleach and mix it with ammonia, you will create a highly toxic gas that will literally kill you, which is why these products often contain warnings that they should not be mixed. |
Sandra Steingraber
See book keywords and concepts |  To force the two together, elemental chlorine gas is required.
Although it holds a rightful place in the periodic table of elements, pure chlorine is a human invention. It can be produced by passing electricity through salt water in a procedure that was first undertaken on an industrial scale in 1893. A powerful poison, chlorine gas became known to the world during World War I, but its manufacture grew slowly until World War II, then rose exponentially. |
David Bodanis
See book keywords and concepts |  The poison contained in commercial deodorants is so strong that when applied thickly it doesn't just kill the bacteria grasping to the hairs, doesn't just kill the ones lying on the skin surface below, but soaks into the skin like First World War chlorine gas to hunt out and get great numbers of the meekest, non-ammonia producing bacteria hiding deep down. As a result populations from elsewhere in the body migrate up and take over. |
Dr. Cass Ingram
See book keywords and concepts |  Millions of tons of chlorine gas and liquid chlorine are transported by rail car and truck yearly. Other millions of tons are stored in factories and depots virtually everywhere. Chlorine gas/liquid spills are relatively common events in the United States, afflicting thousands of individuals every year. The unfortunate people who live near factories, as well as industrial workers, are the usual victims. Note: a chlorine spill and resultant gas cloud are extremely dangerous. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Scouring Powders
Silver Polish
Most scouring powders contain chlorine bleach, which produces chlorine gas when mixed with water. These fumes can irritate eyes, nose, throat, and lungs. Never mix chlorinated scouring powder with ammonia (see Ammonia) or acidic toilet bowl cleaners, as the resulting fumes can be toxic.
The active ingredients in most silver and metal polishers are ammonia (see Ammonia) and petroleum distillates. Depending on the chemicals in the product, silver polish vapors may also be harmful. | | Prolonged exposure to chlorine gas may produce corrosion of the teeth.
Child Alert: High sulfur dioxide levels in the air have been shown to adversely affect children. Increased rates of respiratory tract infections have been seen in children when these levels were raised (see p. 118).
OSHA/NIOSH Standards: The OSHA standard (PEL) for ammonia is a STEL of 35 ppm (27 mg/m3); chlorine, a 1-ppm (3 mg/m3) ceiling; sulfuric acid, 1 mg/m3; sulfur dioxide, 5 ppm (10 mg/m3); nitrogen dioxide, 5 ppm (9 mg/m3); nitrogen oxide, 25 ppm (30 mg/m3); phosphorus oxychloride, 0.1 ppm (0.6 mg/m3); acrolein, 0. |
Michael Tierra
See book keywords and concepts |  When the salt is sufficiently roasted, you may detect the smell of chlorine gas being released, usually occurring in the first few minutes. Chlorine, a very unstable Yin element, is removed from the sea salt to purify it. Then grind the salt and sesame seeds together in the suribachi, rotating the pestle counterclockwise while holding the suribachi between the legs. Combine in a ratio of 8 parts sesame seed to 1 part salt. The gomashio is finished when most of the seeds are crushed. |
Linda Mason Hunter
See book keywords and concepts |  Ammonia: This is a powerful toxicant; if mixed with chlorine bleach, it produces deadly chlorine gas.
Carpet shampoo: It contains a respiratory irritant. Outbreaks of flulike symptoms have frequently been reported after carpet cleaning in day care centers, schools, offices, and motels.
Drain, toilet, and oven cleaners: These contain sodium hydroxide
(lye), a powerful toxin and mucous membrane irritant.
Glue, liquid spot remover, paint, and varnish: They frequently contain toluene, a toxin that can cause fatigue, muscle weakness, and confusion. |
Ruth Winter, M.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Occasionally cases of poisoning occur when people mix household hypochlorite solution with various other household chemicals, which causes the release of poisonous chlorine gas. As with other corrosive ingredients, calcium hypochlorite's toxicity depends upon its concentrations. It is highly corrosive to skin and mucous membranes. Ingestion may cause pain and inflammation of the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, and stomach, with erosion particularly of the mucous membranes of the stomach. CALCIUM IODATE • See Iodine. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
See book keywords and concepts |  Sucralose was originally produced in England in 1976 by two chemists who found that ordinary table sugar could be combined with chlorine gas to produce a complex chemical that the tongue detected as sweet with an intensity six hundred times that of sugar. It turns out that beyond its sweet promise, sucralose is so artificial, the body cannot recognize it and passes it up for absorption as a nutrient. However, it still goes to the liver, which must figure out what to do with it. |
Ruth Winter
See book keywords and concepts |  Occasionally cases of poisoning occur when people mix household hypochlorite solution with various other household chemicals, which causes the release of poisonous chlorine gas. As with other corrosive agents, calcium hypochlorite's toxicity depends upon its concentrations. It is highly corrosive to skin and mucous membranes. Ingestion may cause pain and inflammation of the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, and stomach, with erosion particularly of the mucous membranes of the stomach.
CALCIUM HYPOPHOSPHITE • Crystals of powder, slightly acid in solution, and practically insoluble in alcohol. |
Sandra Steingraber
See book keywords and concepts | | With a large supply on hand for making dyes, Germany turned to chlorine gas to serve as a wretched weapon of chemical warfare in the trenches of France. Chlorinated solvents were also introduced during this time. After the war ended, new chemical products in the United States were protected by high tariffs, the war's losing parties surrendered their chemical secrets to the victors, and considerable wealth and prestige accrued to the chemical industry. By the 1930s, petroleum began to outpace coal as the source of carbon for new chemical inventions. | | A powerful poison, chlorine gas became known to the world during World War I, but its manufacture grew slowly until World War II, then rose exponentially. About 1 percent of this production is used for disinfecting water and about 10 percent for bleaching paper, and the majority is combined with various carbon compounds, usually derived from petroleum, to make organochlorines.
In its elemental form, chlorine (but not the ion chloride) is highly reactive with carbon, which is why so many different combinations are possible. |
G. Edward Griffin
See book keywords and concepts |  By way of analogy, chlorine gas also is known to be deadly. But when the chlorine is chemically bound together with sodium forming sodium chloride, it is a relatively harmless compound known as common table salt.
There is only one substance that can unlock the B17 molecule and release the cyanide. That substance is an enzyme called beta-glucosidase, which we shall call the "unlocking enzyme."2 When B17 comes in contact with this enzyme in the presence of water, not only is the cyanide released, but also the benzaldehyde, which is highly toxic by itself. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
See book keywords and concepts | | Muriate of potash (potassium chloride), the most commonly used potassium fertilizer in the United States, creates hypo-chlorous acid—the main chemical used in swimming-pool disinfectants—in the soil, which inhibits beneficial bacteria, and chlorine gas (a suspected ozone-depleting gas that evaporates into the air). Its use produces mineral-deficient crops and eventually turns the land into a desert.
In addition, plants need more than these three minerals for optimal growth. Some 16 elements are now commonly considered essential, and over 56 have been detected in plant life. |
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