"WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> ROY WITT"  wrote in message
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 -=>> ROY WITT wrote to ROSS SAUER <=-

 RW>> The main reason they evacuate the area after a tanker
 RW>> load of chlorine gas spills is because chlorine gas is a
 RW>> strong oxidizer, which may react with flammable materials.

 WC> Try breathing it and you won't much be worrying about the fire hazard.

That isn't the point of my post. Yours is also true, but fire is more
immediately hazardous to the area surrounding a spill.

 WC> Google Jones Chemical Saint Petersburg Florida.
 WC> I along with tousands of others were ordered evacuated.

 WC> The only place that burned was Jones Pool Chemical supply
 WC> however near a mile away at Precisionaire we were ordered
 WC> out of the area.
 WC> Plus the state police closed to exits of I-275 north
 WC> and south Jones Chemical due to the gas.

 WC> The interstate was never in any danger of catching fire BTW
 WC> so I do wonder why they insisted on closing those onramps
 WC> and offramps???

 RW>> "ROSS SAUER -> JOHN MASSEY" 
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 RS>> JOHN MASSEY said to ROSS SAUER...

 RS>>>> Connecting highly improvised "gas bombs" that
kill not with the
 RS>>>> gas, but with the explosives to Saddam's imaginary
"WMD" is
 RS>>>> really a stretch.

 RS>>>> In fact industrial chlorine makes a lousy
"weapon," since it
 RS>>>> would only work in a small closed room.

 JM>>> Yeah, that's why when a train tank car with that stuff in it derails,
 JM>>> they evacuate the area for a mile or so.

 RS>> Because the amount is VASTLY different, John.
 RS>> Chlorine gas is heavier than air, so it settles along the ground.
 RS>> A very large amount, such as in a railroad tank car, will settle in
 RS>> concentrations along the ground in wide areas.

 RS>> The amounts being used in those insurgent bombs isn't enough to cause
 RS>> that sort of concentration, unless some insurgent bomb blows up a dozen
 RS>> or more industrial use tanks.

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