Re: [CH]V6 #130 Chlorine

Cameron Begg (begg.4@osu.edu)
Mon, 31 Jan 2000 08:41:30 -0500

Hi C-H's,

Rob wrote:

>As far as I know, the green chlorine gas you don't smell, but this change
>when it's attached to water molecules.



>  > Remembering back to a time I tended a commercial swimming pool for a
>  > couple of years, I thought chlorine was odorless.

No. Chlorine, like the other halogens (fluorine, bromine iodine 
etc.), has a very pungent characteristic odor. If you think that 
chlorine is odorless, you probably have no sense of smell.

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                      Regards,               Cameron.