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Re:West Virginia Officials Warn Not to Use Water Following C... by mikeyouse on Friday January 10, 2014 @08:09PM (#7040911)
LD50 is fairly useless as it gives no indication of the toxicity of lower levels of the substance. It takes a large volume for some chemicals to kill you, but a much smaller amount can make your life very unpleasant.

The NIH has much more information about methylcyclohexanol here: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/a?dbs+hsdb:@ter...

Edit -*

The NIH link is to a 4-methylcyclohexanol (CAS: 589-91-3), not to 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (CAS: 34885-03-5), a similar but distinct compound.

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Re:West Virginia Officials Warn Not to Use Water Following C... by maxerickson on Friday January 10, 2014 @08:33PM (#7041017)
methylcyclohexanol and 4-methylcyclohexane methanol are different compounds.
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Re:West Virginia Officials Warn Not to Use Water Following C... by mikeyouse on Friday January 10, 2014 @09:15PM (#7041142)
That damn extra carbon.

Any idea why the Wiki article gets the oxygen / hydrogen counts wrong?

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-methylcyclohexanemethanol]

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Re:West Virginia Officials Warn Not to Use Water Following C... by maxerickson on Friday January 10, 2014 @09:25PM (#7041181)
As of this revision it matches what I see elsewhere:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4-Methylcyclohexan...

Presumably whoever created the page copied the info box and forgot to edit it.

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Re:West Virginia Officials Warn Not to Use Water Following C... by sghodas on Friday January 10, 2014 @08:28PM (#7040999)
That's a good point. It doesn't appear to be particularly dangerous at low levels - just unpleasant.
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