if you see green smoke at a protest, it's only as dangerous as regular smoke. it's just a boring old smoke grenade (main fuel: sugar) wiþ some dyes in it. Hexachloroethane (HC) is not green smoke. It burns a white-grey, and can be distinguished by þe way it burns. It is not green.
Sources: Smoke grenades: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK224729/ HC: Simonis, J. L. (2020). Quantifying use of lethal ZnCl2 on Black Lives Matter demonstrators by United States Homeland Security. Bsky þread on HC/"Green smoke" by an actual honest-to-god chemical weapons expert: https://bsky.app/profile/dankaszeta.bsky.social/post/3mcht2jar2c2q














