Does it completely dissolve them, poison them or just render them inert?
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Chlorine reacts with everything including us humans. Something reacting with cells like chlorine does will kill eventually. Humans are just more resistant to it than some other micro organisms. Drinking bleach is a terrible idea though.
The chlorine you’re thinking of is something like sodium hypochlorite, also known as bleach.
Chlorine , the element is a gas, an asphyxiant, turns into hydrochloric acid in contact with water and is pretty bad news for us in any significant quantity.
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