Corexit is a 1/1 MSDS. Less than 5% volatile.
I have seen this stuff about corexit a number of times now...
People read an MSDS and get all scared over standard industry language.
Put up the “highly toxic” proof.
At least, the U.S. EPA ordered BP to discontinue the use of Corexit already (May 19th, but no telling how much BP dumped on us before then... yeeooow!), because they know about the toxicity of it. In addition, its use in the U.K. has been banned for quite a while now. Apparently they took action on its toxicity before we did ... hoo-boy!
Here is a synopsis of a paper from the International Oil Spill Conference ...
The IOSC is ... the preeminent gathering of oil spill response experts from around the world!
The International Oil Spill Conference contributes to and enables a culture of preparedness within the oil spill response community, the broader field of incident management, and society as a whole.
It provides a forum for professionals from the international community, the private sector, government, and non-governmental organizations to highlight and discuss innovations and best practices across the spectrum of prevention, preparedness, response and restoration.
Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark
Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc.
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East Millstone, New Jersey 08875-2350
A greater danger involving Corexit 9500, and as outlined by Russian scientists in this report, is that with its 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when combined with the heating Gulf of Mexico waters, its molecules will be able to “phase transition” from their present liquid to a gaseous state allowing them to be absorbed into clouds and allowing their release as “toxic rain” upon all of Eastern North America.
Even worse, should a Katrina like tropical hurricane form in the Gulf of Mexico while tens of millions of gallons of Corexit 9500 are sitting on, or near, its surface the resulting “toxic rain” falling upon the North American continent could “theoretically” destroy all microbial life to any depth it reaches resulting in an “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top”.
Note: For molecules of a liquid to evaporate, they must be located near the surface, be moving in the proper direction, and have sufficient kinetic energy to overcome liquid-phase intermolecular forces. Only a small proportion of the molecules meet these criteria, so the rate of evaporation is limited. Since the kinetic energy of a molecule is proportional to its temperature, evaporation proceeds more quickly at higher temperatures.
The PDF of Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview can be found here: www.iosc.org ...
It's people like you who likes to gamble with people's lives and get them ill and pollute the environment and destroy animals and habitat... we should put you in a vat of Corexit for some "skin treatment" for you ... LOL ...