Its pleasing orange color hides a less then pleasant
personality. While classified by the NFPA a Zero for Fire hazard
and Reactivity (Will not burn. - Normally stable. Not reactive with
water). It rates a Three for Health (Can cause serious injury despite
medical treatment.) Quote the Merk Index: Human Toxicity: Internal
a corrosive poison. Industrial contact may result in ulceration of
hands, destruction of mucous membranes and perforation of nasal
septum. Not a ingredient a pyro would handled in a careless
manner! Non pyros are another matter.
Civilian uses are as many as they are pedestrian: Tanning, dyeing,
painting, decorating porcelain, photolithograpy, staining wood,
bleaching palm oil, wax, and sponges, in dry cells as a depolarizer.
Then there is South Africa -- Where a third to two-thirds of blacks
have been estimate to receive frequent purgative enemas
consisting of plant extracts though truncated cow horn and hollow
reeds administered by traditional healers. These methods with
increasing urbanization are being replaced by domestic and
industrial chemicals given with rubber tubing and syringe. Indeed
among the black population in Cape Town, tribal healers have
been using potassium dichromate in purgative enemas! A bad case
of the wrong chemical in the wrong place!! Even infants may
receive 50 enemas a year.(The herbal version, not the hexavalent
chromium-tissue binding, don't try this at home kids, colon/kidney
destroying, dichromate version.)
All this probable proves something. I'll leave it to the reader to
supply their own comments.
Dunnn LP, et al. Colonic complications after toxic tribal enemas.
British Journal of Surgery, 1991; 78: 545-48. Abstracted in The
Lancet July 20, 1991
Nitroglycerine
An 81 year old woman while brushing her teeth suddenly experienced
"lightheadedness, a graying of vision, and then loss of consciousness."
She regained consciousness within three to five minutes and called to
her husband for assistance. When se was helped to her feet, she noted
lightheadedness and a new throbbing headache; both of which abated
within 20 to 30 minutes.
The patient's husband said that he had found his tube of transdermal
nitroglycerin ointment open on the bathroom sink where he discovered
his wife collapsed on the bathroom floor. On closer questioning, it became
apparent that the patient had mistaken her husbands tube of nitrate
ointment for toothpaste and had brushed with it.
New England Journal of Medicine 16x86
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By da a felon is (was) treated by injecting carbolic acid into it.crazyboy - 1-5-2010 at 17:27
Why do you post this shit? Stop it. Get out until you can contribute something useful.unionised - 2-5-2010 at 01:16
It's hard for me to see Crazyboy's contribution as any more useful than the WiZard's and it's certainly less interesting or informative.
I'm reminded of the observation that Mary Whitehouse's TV set didn't seem to have an off switch.Satan - 2-5-2010 at 02:02
Why do you post this shit? Stop it. Get out until you can contribute something useful.
Do you want to impress somebody with that kind of language, and giving orders? Next time try to suggest something and see what is reaction of others,
this is a public forum after all. Or just don`t read it if you don`t like it.
@The WiZard is In
I personally read your posts with pleasure. Your contributions give this place warmth hissingnoise - 2-5-2010 at 02:21
Quote:
@The WiZard is In
I personally read your posts with pleasure. Your contributions give this place warmth
Ditto!
Calcium carbide
The WiZard is In - 4-6-2010 at 08:52
CALCIUM CARBIDE POISONING, MANGO - NEPAL: (EASTERN)
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A ProMED-mail post
<http://www.promedmail.org>
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
<http://www.isid.org>
Date: Thu 3 Jun 2010
Organization: FreshPlaza, Republica (Nepal) report [edited]
<http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=64248>
Nepal: People eating carbide-ripened mangoes fall ill
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People have started to fall ill after eating mangoes ripened
prematurely with the use of chemicals.
Around 30 to 40 patients come to Lahan Hospital daily on average
seeking treatment for abdominal complaints. "Most of them complain of
diarrhea, stomach pain, and nausea," said Dr Mishri Lal Sah. Dr Sah
said a majority of the complaints result from the eating of mangoes
ripened through the use of [calcium] carbide.
Mangoes ripen naturally by mid-June but businessmen use the chemical
carbide to ripen them early and fetch higher prices. "Carbide has a
negative effect on the stomach and intestines," Dr Pashupati
Chaudhary said.
Chief of District Public Health Office Dr Raj Kumar Chaudhary said
the number of patients coming in with stomach complaints is higher
compared to last year [2009]. Sagarmatha Zonal Hospital has also
reported a rise in the inflow of patients with upset stomachs.
Siraha and Saptari districts are major mango producers in the
country. The Agriculture Development Office, Siraha said that mango
varieties like maldaha, dasahari, and kalkatiya that normally mature
at the end of June appeared in the market in late May [2010].
Doctors say these mangoes, ripened prematurely through the use of
carbide, are harmful to health although they look very attractive and
tasty. They suggest that consumers instead buy green mangoes and keep
them in a warm place to ripen them.
[Calcium carbide is used to ripen fruit prematurely or ahead of its
natural cycle. A tray of mangos is covered with plastic and small
container of calcium carbide is placed under the plastic. The plastic
causes the fruit to sweat, or produce moisture. The moisture combines
with the calcium carbide to produce acetylene. Acetylene is known to
cause some neurological signs. Acetylene intoxication has long been
known because it is produced in some welding of metals. While welders
become intoxicated through inhalation, in this situation it may be
through ingestion. - Mod.TG]
[The Siraha and Saptari districts are located in the Sagarmatha Zone,
Purwanchal (Eastern) Region, and can be seen on the map at http://ncthakur.itgo.com/map04.htm.
Lahan in Siraha district can be seen on the HealthMap/ProMED-mail
interactive map of Nepal at http://healthmap.org/r/01rY. - Sr.Tech.Ed.MJ]
...................................tg/mj/lm
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For a short time acetylene was used as an anesthetic. /djh/quicksilver - 4-6-2010 at 09:14
Fascinating material. I actually have a calcium carbide lamp from the 1940's (I live near a mine) - & always thought it was a dangerous device
given the need for Oxygen in close quarters.The WiZard is In - 4-6-2010 at 09:48
Fascinating material. I actually have a calcium carbide lamp from the 1940's (I live near a mine) - & always thought it was a dangerous device
given the need for Oxygen in close quarters.
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In the beginning - acetylene gas was piped into houses for illumination.
Then it dawned ... acetylene gas is explosive over a wide range
of concentrations.
"Water gas" (CO + H2) was the gas of choice up to not that long ago.
Hudson Maxim —Dynamite Stories. 1916
NOT TO BE BUNCOED
THE great Du Pont Company had in its employ at one time a
fateful, patient and lucky fellow, an Italian, who worked
constantly, and not a day off except Sundays, for twenty-
one years in the corning mill, breaking black gunpowder press
cake into grains. During that period the corning mill had blown up
seven times, once every three years, but each time Givovanni had
happened, by the merest chance, to be outside for a few seconds
to get a drink of water or on some other brief errand. Twice he
had his clothes nearly ripped off him, and his face and hands
burned, such had been his proximity on these occasions
to the crater of fire as the mill went up, and once he had been
rendered unconscious by the shock.
Finally, at the end of twenty-one years of service, having put
aside a snug little fortune, sufficient for the remainder of his life in
sunny Italy, he packed up his belongings and turned his face
toward his old home. Arriving in New York, his ticket purchased,
he hied himself to a noted Italian hostelry, to await the coming of
the joyous morrow when he should actually be on the big
steamer, headed for home.
Giovanni had no bad habits, and the bunco man failed to lure him.
He took no stock in the dapper, polished-mannered compatriot
just recently from his home place, who was acquainted with all the
folks. His cash was sewed into his clothes, and those clothes
would not come off until he reached his destination.
When he was shown up into his room at night and left alone with
his thoughts, a placard upon the wall above the gas-burner
attracted his attention. It read: "Don't blow out
the gas," and under this injunction was the statement that gas
burned after ten o'clock would be charged extra.
Giovanni was indignant. Here he was at last caught between the
horns of a dilemma. This, to his mind, was downright thievery. He
would cut the Gordian knot. He would disobey the injunctin. He
could not pay for gas burned overtime perforce; and he blew it
out. . . .
An old sea-captain who had for forty years traveled on every sea,
who had weathered a thousand gales, and survived a hundred
shipwrecks, on his return from his final voyage, in making his
landing on his home shore, slipped from the dock into the water
and under the skiff, and was drowned.
