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To: KarlInOhio

Bingo. When I worked in swimming pool supplies, we were warned never to mix pool chlorine with pool acid because it would create mustard gas. Phosgene has a similar composition. Both mustard gas and phosgene were used in WWI.


17 posted on 08/30/2007 9:36:52 AM PDT by Philistone (Your existence as a non-believer offends the Prophet(MPBUH).)
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To: Philistone
When I worked in swimming pool supplies, we were warned never to mix pool chlorine with pool acid because it would create mustard gas.

Reading up a bit on what it takes to produce mustard gas, I find no reference to combining pool acid (normally hydrochloric acid) and pool chlorine (normally a solid compound of chlorine).

It would, most likely, "just" release chlorine gas, which was also used as a chemical weapon in The Great War, and thus also undesirable.

42 posted on 08/30/2007 9:55:02 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Philistone

Mixing pool chlorine and acid will yield chlorine gas, not mustard. Mustard and phosgene are entirely different compounds. At room temperature, mustard is a liquid, phosgene is a vapor.


44 posted on 08/30/2007 9:55:56 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Philistone

Supposedly mustard gas is synthesized from ethelyene glycol and dry hydrogen chloride, but you won’t get it from pool chemicals - Chlorine maybe. That would be bad enough.


59 posted on 08/30/2007 10:06:23 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
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