chlorine

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According to the Associated Press, some of the children described smelling tangerines, chlorine or cleaning agents.

From Washington Post

For six years afterward, despite assurances from Damascus and Moscow that all of Syria’s chemical weapons had been removed, Syrian civilians intermittently choked on chlorine gas, sulfur mustard gas and possibly sarin.

From Washington Post

Indeed, sodium chloride — each molecule consists of one sodium atom and one chlorine atom — is often thought of first as an antifreeze, lowering the freezing temperature of water.

From New York Times

That included a 2005 crash in which a Norfolk Southern train hauling chlorine plowed into another, killing nine people in Graniteville, South Carolina.

From Seattle Times

Chrysotile asbestos, which the EPA proposal would ban, is a flexible material that can separate molecules and is central to about one-third of the country’s chlorine manufacturing capacity.

From Washington Post