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I could be wrong about this, but off the top of my head can't you make chlorine gas by mixing bleach with a strong acid?
by Eavolution 4y ago
I could be wrong about this, but off the top of my head can't you make chlorine gas by mixing bleach with a strong acid?
- riter 4y agoacid not necessary. ammonia.
- jjk166 4y agoThe difficulty with toxic gases is in the delivery method. For example Chlorine gas at hundreds of PPM still takes several minutes of inhalation to be fatal, and it is a strong irritant so everyone will know it's there and be trying their hardest to get away from it. So you either need to trap someone in a very enclosed space or release ridiculous amounts of it very quickly. Viable for trench warfare, but not much else. Realistically you need something odorless (=exotic enough the human nose hasn't evolved to detect it), fast acting (=highly reactive/unstable), and dangerous at low concentrations (=likely to kill you while making it).