How are chlorine gas and mustard gas different?

Answer 1

Chlorine gas dissolves into hydorchloric acid in your lungs and basically corrode them from the inside out. This might sound horrible, but mustard gas uses a much worse poisoning process. It forms a lot of poisons and corrodes your skin on contact. It's a much worse gas than chlorine.

Chlorine gas is an elemental gas, while mustard gas is an compound.

Answer 2

They are poisons that were used during World War I by both sides. Chlorine is the same sort of chemical used in bleach and to clean pools; it can be made into a cloud that, in high doses, can destroy your lungs and kill you. Mustard gas (it has no mustard in it; it's called that because it smells like mustard) causes burns and blisters to form whereever it touches you, and can also ruin your lungs.

They were used during World War I as a way of defeating enemy troops who were in trenchs. Trenches are basically long holes in the ground that soldiers can hide in and easily defend. It's hard to shoot troops who are hiding in trenches, and bombs/artillery also have a hard time hitting them. But poison gas makes a fog that can sink into a trench and "hit" everyone in it.

Because the poisons are deadly and indiscriminate (that is, there's no way to control them once they've been used), they were already banned when the war started. After the war, the Geneva Protocol made even stronger bans on such weapons.

Answer 3

they are yuseous chemical compound's that are highly toxic to humans

Answer 4

No, they are two different compounds.