[Letitring]

It is indeed troubling. A cloud of ammonia would do what? Extremely abrasive, lethal cloud, what? Lemme go look it up.

[Letitring]

Uh-yeah, it's nasty allright and can be fatal.

[WestCoastGal]

Here's a description of the vehicle:


The guard told police the gunman was a man of Middle Eastern descent with bushy hair and a mustache. The man was driving a white pickup with tinted windows and a black stripe.

[bvw]

Melts lungs.

[bvw]

Burns the eyes. Very painful. I caught a little wift being careless when I was filling up a blueprint machine, years ago.

They have more than just ammonia there. Isn't a facility where they make chlorine too?

[Myrddin]

A cloud of ammonia would do what?

Anhydrous ammonia gas wants to find water. Your eyes, mouth and lungs are immediate sources. Ammonia will blind you, then the very strong ammonium hydroxide formed on the inside surfaces of your lungs will hydrolyze the proteins. Blood serum then pours freely into your lungs and you are asphyxiated. It happens pretty fast. It was a constant danger when I worked on tuna seiners in San Diego. They employed anhydrous ammonia refrigeration for the fish wells.