Most toxic compound OTC?

Quote: Originally posted by Fyndium

The major effect of bean toxicity is prominent flatulence. Recovery occurs within four or five hours of onset, usually without the need for any medical intervention.

Quote: Originally posted by clearly_not_atara

Quote: Originally posted by BauArf56   10% hydrofluoric acid is sometimes sold as rust remover, so if one would spill some on the skin could die quite easily. I also noticed that those gold test bottles contain potassium dichromate (and chromium trioxide)! 1%, not 10% Quote: Originally posted by Fyndium   The major effect of bean toxicity is prominent flatulence. Recovery occurs within four or five hours of onset, usually without the need for any medical intervention. Maybe if you only buy canned beans. Raw beans are in fact very toxic as the previous poster said, due to phytohaemagglutinins. Beans must be boiled (not merely heated) for at least ten minutes in order to be safe to consume, although, for taste reasons, most people would cook them longer. [Edited on 16-5-2021 by clearly_not_atara]

Quote: Originally posted by clearly_not_atara

Quote: Originally posted by BauArf56   10% hydrofluoric acid is sometimes sold as rust remover, so if one would spill some on the skin could die quite easily. I also noticed that those gold test bottles contain potassium dichromate (and chromium trioxide)! 1%, not 10% [Edited on 16-5-2021 by clearly_not_atara]

Quote: Originally posted by Fyndium

Methanol is indeed an insidious poison. It cannot be distinguished from ethanol by any practical means, but it has orders of magnitude higher lethality. If ethanol beverage is contaminated with sufficient amount, the result will be fatal because a lot of ethanol is required to displace it in metabolism. "Fun" fact: there has been zero recorded methanol poisonings from home-distilled liquors ever. It has always been adulterated with added methanol, either unknowingly or accidentally. Tired of noting people on this myth when they always jump on their back feet when talking about home distilling. Not an actual form of chemophobia, but some false myths die hard.

Quote: Originally posted by Rogeryermaw

howz about lead, copper, brass and lead styphnate? sold as an all in one kit by blazer, winchester, federal etc. and can be applied with easily obtainable dosing device using a simple point and click interface? the amounts required for toxicity are extremely variable...almost to the point of random and as such, a modicum of care and attention should be used handling these otc materials. some of my personal favorites.

Quote: Originally posted by draculic acid69

I think blowtorching a copper wire to red hot and then dunking it in will tell if methanol is present as formaldehyde will form.apparently a sniff test will tell

Quote: Originally posted by karlos³

Why even discard the forerun then? Is it sort of a urban myth, that self-burned liquor will give you methanol poisoning? Because apparently it is impossible to get methanol poisoning from that, there is just too much methanol-antidote in it. Its a big talking point against moonshining though... guess thats why they keep that one up.

Quote: Originally posted by Antiswat

"canned air" difluoroethane is commonly used at my job we have had a few people hospitalized after warmwater pipes turned our whole factory into a gas explosion and people went in right after the explosion turns out, the insulating foam is made using a blowing agent containing some carbonfluorine compound and that fluorine ion persists after it burns, difluoroethane for instance turns into hydrogen fluoride carbon fluoro chemicals is my take, very dangerous and you can pull them out of refridgerators or maybe sneak some out of your mechanic, they tend to have it standing around for refilling aircondition units oh and as a fellow chemist i knew from long back found out- ethylene glycol, you just get intoxicated like alcohol, it tastes sweet and it turns into carbon monoxide (iirc) so you pass out and never wake up again im sure EG has been used to kill people mixed up with alcohol, imagine how many people dont notice their drink suddenly being disgustingly salty? how would anyone live to tell about a minor taste difference from ethylene glycol

The ricinus beans I got from my 2020 plant are doing quite well! I only planted them in April. I had the beans in the fridge since harvesting them and I expected only a few to germinate last April, but at least 80-90% did. I planted 7 of them in my garden (I have a garden now) and kept the 4 biggest. Two of them grew large enough to keep sunlight from the other two, keeping them small. Only five months after germination they are 2.8 meters tall and producing beans as we speak.

I will keep some of the beans and germinate in February next year. I wonder how big I can get them. They seem to have reached ground water early on, as I never had to water them while the summer has been very dry.



Lets see when the bananas next to them grow larger.... I've got sikkimensis growing, hopefully they survive winter.

[Edited on 1-9-2022 by Tsjerk]