{"677240":{"#nid":"677240","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech Chemistry Professor Breaks Down Chemicals in the air over Conyers BioLab Plant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA chemical cloud has been emanating from Conyers since Sunday, when a fire broke out at the facility of a company that makes pool and spa treatments and sprinkler system water reacted with chemicals on site. The chemical plume put residents in Rockdale County into a shelter-in-place order. Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-sadighi\u0022\u003EJoseph Sadighi\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E explained in a Q\u0026amp;A with 11Alive meteorologist Melissa Nord what is lingering in the air over the Conyers BioLab plant. He began with explaining the difference between chlorine and chlorine compounds.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Chlorine is an element that is very common in everyday life,\u0022 says Sadighi. \u0022Table salt is sodium chloride, which means it\u0027s chlorine that has picked up an electron and it\u0027s in a salt lattice that makes it very, very stable. If you run an electrical current through it, you can turn it into chlorine gas, that\u0027s a molecule made up of two chlorine atoms, and it is a gas under ordinary conditions. If we have it in a cylinder under pressure, at about eight atmospheres and room temperature, you have a liquid under the pressure of its own headspace like we do in propane gas cylinders for our grills.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA chemical cloud has been emanating from Conyers since Sunday, when a fire broke out at the facility of a company that makes pool and spa treatments and sprinkler system water reacted with chemicals on site. The chemical plume put residents in Rockdale County into a shelter-in-place order. Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-sadighi\u0022\u003EJoseph Sadighi\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E explained in a Q\u0026amp;A with 11Alive meteorologist Melissa Nord what is lingering in the air over the Conyers BioLab plant. He began with explaining the difference between chlorine and chlorine compounds.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Chlorine is an element that is very common in everyday life,\u0022 says Sadighi. \u0022Table salt is sodium chloride, which means it\u0027s chlorine that has picked up an electron and it\u0027s in a salt lattice that makes it very, very stable. If you run an electrical current through it, you can turn it into chlorine gas, that\u0027s a molecule made up of two chlorine atoms, and it is a gas under ordinary conditions. If we have it in a cylinder under pressure, at about eight atmospheres and room temperature, you have a liquid under the pressure of its own headspace like we do in propane gas cylinders for our grills.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-02 13:39:23","changed_gmt":"2024-10-02 13:39:23","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"11Alive WXIA","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/local\/conyers\/explaining-what-exactly-is-in-air-over-conyers-biolab-plant\/85-541f7251-4365-48f3-aec7-4c5d0b9acdc3","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"10382","name":"chemicals"},{"id":"193981","name":"chlorine"},{"id":"193982","name":"BioLab"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}