Substances that can have an acute negative effect on body

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Posted by iclone on Oct-03-2007 17:10:

quote:
Originally posted by we_R_DNA
Just a heads up. Your firealarms in your house contain minute amounts of
americium-241.

aka what's sitting around chernobyl aka daughter of plutonium-241, with a physical half-life of 458 years and an effective half-life of about 100 years. it's a gamma-ray emitter, to boot.

Posted by UWM on Oct-03-2007 17:11:

Mercuric Chloride

Posted by iclone on Oct-03-2007 17:13:

TOXNET / Haz-Map

Posted by Zild on Oct-03-2007 17:14:

Bromine is one of my favorite deadly reagents.

Posted by UWM on Oct-03-2007 17:18:

quote:
Originally posted by Zild
Bromine is one of my favorite deadly reagents.

Elemental bromine isn't even close to being deadly.

Posted by Zild on Oct-03-2007 17:22:

quote:
Originally posted by UWM
Elemental bromine isn't even close to being deadly.

WTF are you talking about?

Posted by UWM on Oct-03-2007 17:27:

quote:
Originally posted by Zild
WTF are you talking about?

quote:
Originally posted by UWM
Elemental bromine isn't even close to being deadly.

That's what I'm talking about.

Organic bromines are more dangerous, and even they aren't directly responsible for death. Maybe through chronic exposure, but it would take an excessively large dose to cause acute system failure.

Posted by dj_mdma on Oct-03-2007 17:29:

MAgnesium doesn't react with water like you have mentioned.

The chemicals that react explosively with water are lithium, sodium, potassium and the rest of the elements in that group. There is a radioactive one at the bottom of that particular chemical group that is particularly volatile. They have to be kept in oil otherwise they'll react with the moisture in the air.

Chlorine gas is quite dangerous, but you'll have to do some work with hydrochloric acid to release the gas.

I highly doubt you'll be working with any extremely toxic chemicals unless you work in industrial chemistry. Hell even at college age (16-18) we were working with mercury, hydrofluoric acid and loads of other stuff. Then at university we moved onto pure liquid cocaine, but i wouldn't call that particularly harmful

Posted by Zild on Oct-03-2007 17:38:

Mercuric chloride is about 10 times more toxic than bromine, but you would still use the same precautions while handling either one. As long as you're using a vented hood you will be ok.

I'd say you don't really have to worry about much if you're working in a lab. Most of them are very safe.

Posted by DigitalPhoenix on Oct-03-2007 17:53:

When I was 17, I was asked to clean the floors of some camp,
they didnt have shit on their cleaning closet other than
half a bottle of bleach and 1 quart of ammonia..

yep, I mixed them up - not recommended!

Posted by D-res on Oct-03-2007 17:56:

quote:
Originally posted by Sushipunk
Wtf, magnesium reacts with water? I thought that was Sodium?

wtf, I thought it was Potassium

Posted by Lunar Phase 7 on Oct-03-2007 23:21:

quote:
Originally posted by iclone
it's a gamma-ray emitter, to boot.

hence why it is in smoke detectors...

My vote is plutonium.

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