Evidence raises fresh questions over chemical weapons.
By The Conversation
What you need to know:
Chlorine can be lethal in high concentrations and without medical intervention. But its imprecise delivery means that it rarely is so.
Moreover, while chlorine itself is fairly persistent, it evaporates quickly in high temperatures.
Persistent allegations of chemical weapons use in the Sudanese civil war have recently been reinforced by new evidence.
The use of chemical weapons has been outlawed for nearly a century.
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