Vinyl Chloride

Posted by johndevor on Sunday February 12, 2023 @10:03PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_chloride

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Re:Vinyl Chloride by m348e912 on Sunday February 12, 2023 @10:38PM (#34769850)

It would really suck if a train derailed in say, Ohio, and released a ton of this stuff creating an environmental nightmare.

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Re:Vinyl Chloride by argella on Sunday February 12, 2023 @10:50PM (#34769908)

Surprisingly little news coverage of the massive cloud of that shit headed east.

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Re:Vinyl Chloride by m348e912 on Monday February 13, 2023 @08:08AM (#34772957)

https://twitter.com/RaleighFam/status/1622948184476483585

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Re:Vinyl Chloride by idiocrat on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:12AM (#34770377)

Ohio catastrophe is ‘wake-up call’ to dangers of deadly train derailments

"Five days after a train carrying vinyl chloride derailed and exploded near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, crews ignited a controlled burn of toxic chemicals to prevent a much more dangerous explosion."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/ohio-train-d...

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