Re:We discovered three poisonous books in our university lib...
by kragen on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:01AM
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Paris green has an LD50 of 22 mg/kg, according to Wikipedia. That's one thousandth of the lethality of ricin, one fortieth of the lethality of sarin, half the lethality of sodium cyanide, one two-hundredth the lethality of alpha-amanitin, one fourth of the lethality of nicotine, roughly the same immediate lethality as hydrazine, methamphetamine, tetraethyllead, or aflatoxin B1, and only eight times as lethal as caffeine. It is very dangerous, and you should avoid getting it on you, but it seems unreasonable to describe it as one of the most toxic chemicals known. It is definitely not in the same category of nightmare chemicals as dimethylmercury, chlorine trifluoride, silane, or red fuming nitric acid. I'll admit that outgassing arsine if it gets moldy is pretty nasty, though.
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Re:We discovered three poisonous books in our university lib...
by semi-extrinsic on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:58AM
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> red fuming nitric acid
[RFNA leaking from truck, Ukraine, 2015]
Re:We discovered three poisonous books in our university lib...
by mtreis86 on Monday July 02, 2018 @07:39AM
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More of that truck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKzTy8OPZ6Y
Re:We discovered three poisonous books in our university lib...
by matt-snider on Monday July 02, 2018 @09:49AM
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What effect did/would it have on that tree?
Re:We discovered three poisonous books in our university lib...
by Gibbon1 on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:40AM
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> arsine
Had a client in the 80's that used Arsine to make gallium arsnide LED's. Arsine gave the techs and engineers the creeps.
Re:We discovered three poisonous books in our university lib...
by volkl48 on Monday July 02, 2018 @10:48AM
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I worked in a GaAs fab a couple years ago, they still do.
Although with all the other fun chemicals in use, safety training could be summarized as "and this one will kill you in this horrible way if something goes wrong/you do something wrong".