| A nurse takes care of the rescued firefighter Zhou Ti in Taida Hospital in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Aug. 16, 2015. Zhou has recovered smoothly and can have slop for food on Sunday. (Xinhua/Lv Dong) |
Posted on 08/16/2015 7:11:06 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Tianjin explosions: sodium cyanide on site may have been 70 times allowed amount
Official death toll rises to 112 as officials find what they believe to be hundreds of tonnes of the toxic chemical
Fergus Ryan in Beijing
Sunday 16 August 2015 09.26 BST
Chinese officials have found what they believe to be hundreds of tonnes of sodium cyanide at two locations within the site of Wednesday’s deadly blasts in Tianjin as a massive cleanup effort continues, state media reported on Sunday.
The discovery came after reports claimed that up to 700 tonnes of the chemical – 70 times the permitted amount – were stored at the site, with some reports suggesting the company that owned the warehouse where the blasts originated, Rui Hai International Logistics, may have been illegally transporting chemicals.
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Ping.
Hmmmmm. Was the EPA seen anywhere in the vicinty?
| A nurse takes care of the rescued firefighter Zhou Ti in Taida Hospital in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Aug. 16, 2015. Zhou has recovered smoothly and can have slop for food on Sunday. (Xinhua/Lv Dong) |
I can’t help but think that this was a weapons shipment headed for islamic terrorists.
He Xiaoxin: How Far Can I Go? And How Much Can I Do?
Journalist He Xiaoxin (和小欣) of The Beijing Daily (北京日报) traveled to report from the scene of the massive explosion in a chemical warehouse at the Tianjin port, in which 112 people have been reported killed so far. Dramatic photos and videos of the explosion traveled quickly around the world via the Internet. But in this photo essay, He provides an up-close, personal look at the devastation. Propaganda officials have since banned media from reporting on the explosion or posting stories that did not originate from Xinhua
“may have” reporting. not worth any further speculation.
Huh? Why on earth would you think that?
Precisely. Ever since I saw the videos of the explosion, I've thought it was weapons.
What a series of events. Firemen put water on a small fire, which then reacts with calcium carbide to make acetylene, which explodes, setting off ammonium nitrate which then scatters cyanide.
To which I replied:
My God -- you've just given an EXACT description of Obama's Middle East foreign policy!!
I saw that, too. An apt description.:-)
Sodium cyanide... hmmm... I wonder if they also stored any acid at the warehouse?
Not in CHINA! Say it isn’t so.
The Chinese EPA did this : )
Possible; but the rumor on the ground is that someone was going to either open or expand a really big gold mining operation. Apparently, sodium cyanide is necessary for refining gold from ore.
A very sobering article... Aluminum melts at 1221!
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