Registered: Jun 2004
Location: San Antonio, US : TXTA #156
It is generally a safe practice to look up the MSDS info for all of the chemicals you will be working with prior to using them. Often times it is required to have this information written in your lab notebook ahead of time.
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I've never been able to eat a whole baby.
Kill the women. Eat the children.
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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.
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: San Antonio, US : TXTA #156
Bromine is one of my favorite deadly reagents.
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I've never been able to eat a whole baby.
Kill the women. Eat the children.
It's just one of those days where you want to bend over everyone you know and kiss their ass goodbye with a big sideways boot.
Originally posted by Zild
Bromine is one of my favorite deadly reagents.
Elemental bromine isn't even close to being deadly.
Oct-03-2007 17:18
Zild
Ten City
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: San Antonio, US : TXTA #156
quote:
Originally posted by UWM
Elemental bromine isn't even close to being deadly.
WTF are you talking about?
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I've never been able to eat a whole baby.
Kill the women. Eat the children.
It's just one of those days where you want to bend over everyone you know and kiss their ass goodbye with a big sideways boot.
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.
Oct-03-2007 17:27
dj_mdma
I'm on HarderFaster now.
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Posh Twickenham
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
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: San Antonio, US : TXTA #156
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.
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I've never been able to eat a whole baby.
Kill the women. Eat the children.
It's just one of those days where you want to bend over everyone you know and kiss their ass goodbye with a big sideways boot.
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!
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Oct-03-2007 17:53
D-res
Hangin from Sagan's uvula
Registered: May 2004
Location: Milwaukee, WI
quote:
Originally posted by Sushipunk
Wtf, magnesium reacts with water? I thought that was Sodium?
