@article{ref1,
title="A New Kind of Molotov? Gasoline-Pool Chlorinator Mixtures",
journal="Journal of forensic sciences",
year="2012",
author="Hutches, Katherine and Lord, James",
volume="57",
number="4",
pages="1064-1069",
abstract="This paper investigates the reaction between pool chlorinators and gasoline. In particular, the propensity for self-ignition and the resulting chemical products were studied. An organic pool chlorinator was combined with gasoline in varying proportions in an attempt to form a hypergolic mixture. None of the combinations resulted in self-ignition, but larger quantities of chlorinator produced vigorous light-colored smoke and a solid mass containing isocyanuric acid and copper chloride. Additionally, the chlorinating abilities of different commercially available pool chlorinators were explored. When Ca(ClO)(2) and sodium dichloro-s-triazinetrione-based chlorinators were used, the presence of gasoline was still visible after 10 days, despite limited chlorination. The trichloro-s-triazinetrione-based chlorinator, however, caused efficient chlorination of the C(2) - and C(3) -alkylbenzenes, making gasoline no longer identifiable.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-1198",
doi="10.1111/j.1556-4029.2012.02078.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2012.02078.x"
}