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To: Darksheare

How people can be exposed to sarin
Following release of sarin into the air, people can be exposed through skin contact or eye contact. They can also be exposed by breathing air that contains sarin.
Sarin mixes easily with water, so it could be used to poison water. Following release of sarin into water, people can be exposed by touching or drinking water that contains sarin.
Following contamination of food with sarin, people can be exposed by eating the contaminated food.
A person’s clothing can release sarin for about 30 minutes after it has come in contact with sarin vapor, which can lead to exposure of other people.
Because sarin breaks down slowly in the body, people who are repeatedly exposed to sarin may suffer more harmful health effects.
Because sarin vapor is heavier than air, it will sink to low-lying areas and create a greater exposure hazard there.


64 posted on 11/16/2006 5:14:03 PM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: mware

Yes, and ugh.


70 posted on 11/16/2006 5:15:17 PM PST by Darksheare (In the beginning was a gate. And the gate was GOOD. Now to this gate came a BUNNY with a BIG WRENCH.)
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To: mware

the sarin subway attack in Japan was ideal conditons for sarin killing a bazillion people, yet I seem to recall hardly anybody died and there were hardly any injuries...
i wonder why ?


265 posted on 11/16/2006 9:05:13 PM PST by stylin19a ("Klaatu Barada Nikto")
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