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Here is an article about chlorine and chloramines in tap water......It is directed at tropical fish collectors, but it is interesting, none the less....

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William Graham
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Chlorine (an element) is *not* the same as Mustard Gas.

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Joe Gwinn

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Joseph Gwinn

They, [municipal utilities] are actually switching more to concentrated liquid CL than powder. Larger utilities, and small ones have either auto fed or hand mixed the powdered Sodium Hypochlorite for years. Accidents with one ton CL gas cylinders cause mass evacuations. Bugs

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Bugs

The later is the conventional method. Yes it does come back out. That is what you smell when opening the tap. A newer method is using UV (ultraviolet) radiation to kill all the "little bugs". ...lew...

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Lew Hartswick

Both chlorine and mustard were used as war gasses, but they are not the same. Mustard is a blister agent, where chlorine is a choking agent. Other types of agents are blood agents like phosgene and hydrogen cyanide (and carbon monoxide) and nerve agents like sarin. The nerve agents, developed after WWI, are by far the most deadly.

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Don Foreman

I remember having a tank of big $ fish and hearing the water company was 'thinking' of changing away from Chlorine - that meant that bottled water was required until they fessed up to what and the general group in town - clubs and stores agreed on the treatment and if one or two types of treatments were needed.

We waited until the lines were flushed enough to start single treatment.

We no longer have fish, but someday maybe.

Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH & Endowment Member NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

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Martin H. Eastburn

Stand corrected - but now the world knows how to make the nasty gas. Yes - not everyone signed the treaty - but will be held to human rights level.

Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH & Endowment Member NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

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Martin H. Eastburn

Mustard isn't even a gas.

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Andy Dingley

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