Medical charities reported that chlorine gas attacks had been reported in the Kallaseh neighbourhood of Aleppo, with 25 victims reported to have experienced suffocation and difficulty breathing.
Leu and co-workers reported that chlorine, bromine, and iodine can be used in place of hydrogen as a surface passivation agents because they have the ability to reduce the band gap but still maintaining the semiconducting abilities of the wires [43].
Several thousand people were ordered out of the Hyatt Regency Hotel around 1 a.m. after guests reported a chlorine odor on the 9th floor, according to local media.
However, in only 8 of the 14 supplies reported as chlorinated was residual chlorine detected.
We report that chlorine dioxide is effective at killing spores of B. subtilis ATCC 6051 in a dose-dependent fashion.
Tap water sampling carried out on 11 July 2011 by the municipal laboratory reported inadequate residual chlorine (<0.2 mg/L) to prevent reinfection in the distribution system (data courtesy of A. Murcia, Bromatología Municipalidad de Villa la Angostura, reported in Wilson et al., 2012b).
Most respondents using liquid bleach or granular chlorine reported obtaining the product in the market (60.5% and 77.4%, respectively).
Residual chlorine was variously reported as an average or range of chlorine concentration or proportion of samples containing > 0.5 or 0.2 mg/L, thus preventing its inclusion in meta-analysis.
Another chlorine attack reported this month was near where a Russian helicopter was shot down.
