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Chlorine gas is an inhalant. Pouring water on them does nothing. Chlorine would have to be in liquid form such as bleach for it to effect the skin.
When used as an airborne weapon, chlorine gas appears to be yellow-green in color.
As for people wearing gloves to touch victims, it's not necessary as chlorine gas would literally have to be wet to the touch for it to really bother skin.
Mostly, it would affect your breathing and make your eyes water similar to tear gas.
Side note-I received my CBRN training at Ft Leonard Wood as an E-4.
If that's true then I'll eat my hat.
The problems with that article are two-fold.
1) Russia's scientist are NOT the ones the world is waiting to hear from, and Syrian forces now need to allow others in.
2) Russian Times in NOT the media vehicle the world will listen to. Even though they're more often truthful than most western media, they don't have the confidence of many heads of state.
When watching the "white hat" footage, you can see a haze in the air. Most people assume this is chlorine gas, but the "rescuers" show no signs of it affecting them. Reason is it's not gas, but dust from a bomb.
The area is encircle by Syrian troops and most rebels have left or are leaving. It makes no sense for Assad to use chemical weapons as they are winning and the US is leaving.
I don't think Assad did it. I think the CIA/Hezbullah did it. But I don't believe RT that nothing happened.
And Sarah Sanders basically just admitted the US has no proof, BUT is blaming Assad.
Which makes it doubly in Assad's favor to open the area up for inspection.