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Re:I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil by refurb on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:41AM (#10500251)
If I remember correctly, a fatal concentration of H2S is actually lower than HCN (hydrogen cyanide).

Many people each year succumb to H2S poisoning. It's a pretty insidious poison.

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Re:I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil by wycx on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @11:30AM (#10500605)
And for those interested, H2Se has an LC50 about an order of magnitude lower than H2S. Fortunately S/Se in crude oil is likely to be >10000. It smells like garlic.
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