Can chlorine in drinking water become chlorine gas?

Subject: Can chlorine in drinking water become chlorine gas?

Date: Sun Oct 10 23:07:49 1999
Posted by Jaimie Scott
Grade level: grad (science) School: No school entered.
City: Hillsboro State/Province: OR Country: USA
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 939611269.Ch

Message:


I take a sauna nearly daily, and I am wondering if the chlorine in 
drinking water could become gaseous chlorine that I might breathe in
when I throw water on the heater in the sauna and the water is instantly
turned into vapor?

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