WASHINGTON — The U.S. now has blood and urine samples from last Saturday's deadly attack in Syria that have tested positive for chemical weapons, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the ...
While chlorine is used in the manufacturing of chemicals we use all the time such as paper, cloth and pesticides, it's more common use is to kill harmful bacteria in drinking water and swimming pool ...
The chemical element chlorine is too reactive to exist on its own in nature, but some of the compounds that contain it are essential to life. We use hydrochloric acid (HCl) in our stomachs to break ...
When chlorine gas seeped out of the massive industrial complex in Brazosport on May 20 and traveled downwind toward surrounding communities such as Clute, Lake Jackson and Richwood, some residents ...
In the wake of the release of toxic chemicals from derailed tanker cars in East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border, the Columbus City Council approved a $31.5 million project Monday to ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The same sanitizing agent used to rid federal office buildings of anthrax – chlorine dioxide gas – can effectively eliminate deadly bacteria from apples and other fruits and ...
U.S. security officials said Thursday that they were looking into a new report that Islamic State militants had used chlorine gas as a weapon against Iraqi police officers last month near Balad, north ...
When used as a chemical weapon, chlorine gas disperses so rapidly that evidence of its release can be hard to find. “With most nerve agents, we have biomarkers that are stable in the environment that ...