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It depends on dosage and the individual person; all poisons have a rating called an LD50 - Lethal Dose for 50% of the population. It varies by exposure method (inhalation in this case) and the species (humans). Basically, it's the amount of poison needed to kill half the population you expose to it - they don't use 100% because, theoretically speaking, some oddity might exist in one of the test subjects that makes them immune (much more likely with complex poisons - chlorine gas is frighteningly simple, and alarmingly easy to make). Needless to say, legitimate research conducts LD50 tests on lab rats and the like - As far as I know, the only organization to legitimize poison gas testing on human subjects was Hitler's 3rd Reich. For most poisons, the effect is directly scalable by weight (a human weighing 100 times the weight of a rat can expect similar effects from a dose 100 times as large).
Since Chlorine is an airborne poison, it's lethal dosage is measured in exposed concentration for a specified timeframe - as such, I think the lethal dose ratings are directly comparable; human lungs would resist damage from chlorine no better than those of a rat.
According to a Material Safety Data, the LC50 (lethal conentration) is 293ppm for 1 hour. Everything I've heard about the effects of chlorine gas used in World War 1 suggests that people who survived gas attacks didn't have any progressive long term effects (Instant emphazema, blindness and horrific scarring, yes, but nothing that culminated in death), so I'd guess that, at that level of exposure, it'd take about an hour to die.
Chlorine gas used as a weapon was delivered in muchhigher concentrations; what I've heard indicates that if you wound up in a gas cloud you didn't see coming (or otherwise failed to have a gas mask in place prior to exposure), you generally didn't make it, meaning the damage became debilitating in a few seconds (or you'd have time to get a mask on). I'd guess at such a concentration, the time it would take to be fatal would be at most a couple of minutes.
Regardless of all this, even detection threshhold levels of chlorine gas can be harmful - the same safety sheet says that the maximum concentration of gas that one can work an 8 hour shift in without a mask is 1ppm.
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As long as you have faith in god and do not be afraid
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