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The Zyklon B cans contained the gas in solid state. Such granules will fall using gravitation down to the floor.
Here's the process in a movie if you need to be shown visually: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zo6i0e_c0P4
Yes, and it takes the pellets 15-20 minutes to evaporate under absolutely ideal conditions (high heat and air-flow). If you just dump them, more like 2+ hours.
It'd make a damned poor fumigant if it instantly activated when you were spreading it around the area.
If you were using it in this fashion, a ventilating machine would about be mandatory.
https://furtherglory.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/machine06.jpg
This machine at Dachau has some plausibility, but the whole "dumping pellets in the room" is just dumb. Of course, introducing it in gaseous form poses its own problems.