"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message
...
Chlorine gas forms with Water and makes HCL and O2 - Chlorine reacts with
other
chemicals present. It takes some pool calcium and makes Ca2Cl or some
form.
And naturally dissolved gas. It is this gas we smell when we turn on the
tap
or get a whiff at the pool...

Here is an article about chlorine and chloramines in tap water......It is
directed at tropical fish collectors, but it is interesting, none the
less....
http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_chlorine.htm

In article ,
"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote:

Chlorine gas is WWI Mustard Gas. Very nasty stuff indeed.

Chlorine (an element) is *not* the same as Mustard Gas.

See http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/mustard/mustard.htm.


Joe Gwinn

They, [municipal utilities] are actually switching more to concentrated
liquid CL than powder. Larger utilities, and small ones have either
auto fed or hand mixed the powdered Sodium Hypochlorite for years.
Accidents with one ton CL gas cylinders cause mass evacuations.G
Bugs

William Graham wrote:

"Lew Hartswick" wrote in message
nk.net...

Aremick wrote:

Due to safety and security concerns, many municipal systems are now
converting to a solid form of chlorine.


At any reasonable temperatures and pressures Chlorine is a GAS.
(period)
Now they may be using some COMPOUND of Chlorine (that means it is
bound up with some other element /s)
BUT it is NOT a solid form of Chlorine.
pickey pickey.
...lew...


The question is, what is Chlorine gas dissolved in water? Is it ionized,
like it would be if you added salt to water. (salt is sodium chloride, so it
has chlorine atoms in it) Or, does the dissolved chlorine gas remain in
gaseous form, so upon heating the water, it would bubble back out? And what
do they do when they add chlorine to drinking water to kill the bacteria at
the water purification plant? Do they put some chlorine salt that ionizes in
the water, or do they just dissolve chlorine gas in it, so that it
dissipates out of the water after some period of time?


The later is the conventional method. Yes it does come back out. That is
what you smell when opening the tap.
A newer method is using UV (ultraviolet) radiation to kill all the
"little bugs".
...lew...

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:32:49 -0600, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:

Chlorine gas is WWI Mustard Gas. Very nasty stuff indeed.

Both chlorine and mustard were used as war gasses, but they are not
the same. Mustard is a blister agent, where chlorine is a choking
agent. Other types of agents are blood agents like phosgene and
hydrogen cyanide (and carbon monoxide) and nerve agents like sarin.
The nerve agents, developed after WWI, are by far the most deadly.

I remember having a tank of big $ fish and hearing the water company was
'thinking' of changing away from Chlorine - that meant that bottled
water was required until they fessed up to what and the general group in town -
clubs and stores agreed on the treatment and if one or two types of treatments
were needed.

We waited until the lines were flushed enough to start single treatment.

We no longer have fish, but someday maybe.

Martin
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



William Graham wrote:
"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message
...

Chlorine gas forms with Water and makes HCL and O2 - Chlorine reacts with
other
chemicals present. It takes some pool calcium and makes Ca2Cl or some
form.
And naturally dissolved gas. It is this gas we smell when we turn on the
tap
or get a whiff at the pool...


Here is an article about chlorine and chloramines in tap water......It is
directed at tropical fish collectors, but it is interesting, none the
less....
http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_chlorine.htm



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Stand corrected - but now the world knows how to make the nasty gas.
Yes - not everyone signed the treaty - but will be held to human rights level.

Martin
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



Joseph Gwinn wrote:
In article ,
"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote:


Chlorine gas is WWI Mustard Gas. Very nasty stuff indeed.


Chlorine (an element) is *not* the same as Mustard Gas.

See http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/mustard/mustard.htm.


Joe Gwinn

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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:31:04 -0600, Don Foreman
wrote:

Both chlorine and mustard were used as war gasses,

Mustard isn't even a gas.