Posted on 08/20/2017 3:38:14 PM PDT by ARGLOCKGUY
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Exposed for a short period of time, not like living with it every day in your own house.
Formaldehyde has many legitimate uses, all covered by the appropriate MSDS.
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Oh, this is so 80s.
"Beach"? Sure. But anti-chlorine shampoo not needed. Other coworkers and I did meet for scuba diving (most did have lobster licenses) first thing in the AM, or sometimes after work in the middle of the Summer.
Now I can't remember what we did for showering, if at all, after the salt water, before work.
Sounds like pre-fab type houses with the cheapest materials possible .... normally 2 X 8s/2 X 10s are used for floor joists and don’t contain formaldehyde.
Nice to hear some common sense. My Dad worked in a steel mill for thirty years. They wore asbestos gloves that they clapped together when the gloves got dirty. He said that you could see the asbestos fibers floating in the air. He passed away four years ago at ninety-one. It wasn’t lung cancer or anything to do with asbestos. His heart just failed. The wimps we’ve become scares me too, and how gullible we’ve become.
If you expose your skin to formaldehyde, your skin hardens like a callous.
We used the stuff in the 70's in HS. Was a bio and engineering geek, student aide( in both) so I was the one dealing with the animals prepping for dissection. Changed my career from arch engineering to nursing in the late 80's and we probably still used the same techniques in the 60's except we used gloves sometimes.
Only fun part was "growing' new skin over our hands. Serious pussy generation( Thanks to Clint Eastwood for that one).
Saw a guy that did that. He had mercury poisoning in his finger. You could see it in the skin. I was only 18 at the time and I told him to get to the doctor pronto.
Never saw him again. Always wondered what happened to him.
He didn’t recognize me but I had seen him at the bowling alley when I was younger.
No exactly sure which component in those Mobile had it in it but it was problem for some back then, probably still.
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I know!
That skin was actually already “dead” though.
A corpse is already hard before the formaldehyde is injected (hopefully anyway!)
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