What the heck is “powdered chlorine”? Chlorine at room temperature is a gas. I suspect they found some powder containing bound chlorine which when heated or acted upon by another agent could give off chlorine gas.
I guess reporters do not have to know anything about chemistry and are no longer required to check facts?
Not to be a dweeb, but... Powdered chlorine is commonly sold as “ shock”
Very common, it’s like tablets but ground up in a single dose bag ( small ) to shock a swimming pool into shape if it’s been neglected.
You open the bag and sprinkle it into the pool.
P.s.
If you mix that and break fluid, that’s bad medicine.
Thank god there was none of that.
sounds like a chlorate compound, this is a person with some chemistry knowledge. That’s not good.
if attending these things, said person is already very “off” so to speak.
Probably calcium hypochlorite.
Calcium hypochlorite also known as chlorine powder or bleach powder[1] is a chemical compound with formula Ca(ClO)2. It is widely used for water treatment and as a bleaching agent. This chemical is considered to be relatively stable and has greater available chlorine than sodium hypochlorite (liquid bleach).