Posted on 11/08/2014 7:38:42 AM PST by PROCON
Neil Bartlett made several Argon compounds using Fluorine. (I think he should have won a Nobel Prize for this work.) It’s not easy to make Argon compounds, but it is possible.
Argon is dangerous! It’s a major component of those horrible incandescent light bulbs.
Interesting. I guess flourine can react with almost anything!
Interesting. I guess flourine can react with almost anything!
Interesting. I guess flourine can react with almost anything!
Interesting. I guess flourine can react with almost anything!
The article was about Argon in pesticides. The chemistry professor cited in the article stomped government “scientists” pretty good.
I know what the article was about. Banning this inert agent would cause many problems was my point. Hate a counter point luv?
Tough
Produce in the sense of producing coal or oil, i.e., extracting it and making it commercially useful. I did a little on-line research, and sure enough, the greatest cost in producing oxygen and nitrogen is the cost of the electricity used to liquefy the raw stock (air), and it is produced by fractional distillation of liquid air.
EPA is trying to pretend that it is nothing:
As EPA Assistant Administrator James Jones explains in this letter, the EPA is responding to petitions from California Attorney General Kamela Harris and others who asked for new labeling of pesticide ingredients. The EPA rejected the petition and instead offered a compromise proposal (not an official regulation yet). They looked through the list of inert ingredients that are generally approved for use in pesticide formulations, picked only the ones that aren't used anymore, and propose to remove them from the list. If someone wants to use them again, they'll have to go through the normal approval process. That gives some protection from poisoning at a minimum of hassle.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/270917/speedreads-no-the-epa-is-not-banning-argon
However, if you are producing a pesticide and it contains air in the package etc you are still violating the silly regulation.
We still have time to send them comments:
“The agency will be accepting public comments on the proposed action until Nov. 21.”
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=EPA-HQ-OPP-2014-0558-0001
Power deludes, and absolute power deludes absolutely.
Now inert gases are somehow dangerous? I suppose one could be if your sucked it into your lungs from a balloon full of it.
DANG!
She’s screaming, “IT’S MERCURY, DAMMIT! MERRRRRCURRRRRYYYYY!!!”
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