U.S. is fairly confident that the Syrian regime carried out an attack that killed dozens in Douma, one of the last towns in the area still under rebel control. U.S. officials say blood and urine ...

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 ...

Chlorine is a toxic gas used in disinfectants and cleaning products. Exposure causes eye, lung, and skin irritation, and lung fluid buildup. Children and asthma patients are at higher risk. No ...

As experts sort through questions around recent chemical attacks in Syria, future answers to quickly testing and treating those who may have been exposed to chlorine gas may lie in chlorinated lipids, ...

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 ...

An Olin Chemical chlorine leak last week that sent poisonous chlorine gas wafting into neighborhoods in Plaquemine and prompted 39 people to go to the hospital released an estimated 6,512 pounds of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chlorine is a common element in household cleaning and pesticide products. You’re probably most familiar with its use in pools to keep them free from bacteria and algae. It is naturally a gas but can ...

Chlorine is an essential industrial chemical used in products ranging from disinfectants to plastics. Yet producing chlorine ...