What does the chemical do in the lungs that causes such harm?
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If chlorine gas encounters water, a chemical reaction happens:
**chlorine + water –> hydrochloric acid**
Your body is full of water. The tissue lining you mouth, throat, and lungs is all wet. So if you breathe chlorine gas, it’s generating hydrochloric acid on-contact inside your airway. This causes acid burns. If this doesn’t kill you directly by blistering the tissue that’s supposed to be letting oxygen into your body, then it’s common for the liquid weeping blisters to basically drown you by filling the lungs with fluid. It’s…not a good way to go.
Oh and your eyes are wet too, so chlorine sears them with acid on contact as well.
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