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Cyanide Thunderstorms Feared As Mystery Deepens Around $1.5 Billion Tianjin Explosion
ZeroHedge ^
| 8/18/15
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 08/18/2015 12:02:10 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: VanShuyten
With China’s markets crashing I would not doubt someone is getting insurance to cover their losses.
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posted on
08/18/2015 1:57:51 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: BenLurkin
“Cyanide Thunderstorm — great name for a heavy metal band.”
They’ll never get a gig in Bhopol, India.
To: Kartographer
Is the powder lightweight enough to be suspended in significant quantities in air? I’d be skeptical. I could believe tons of it got scattered on surrounding land and buildings in the blasts, but not suspended in the air.
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posted on
08/18/2015 2:06:55 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Kartographer
Oh wait, I see what they’re fearing... the stuff, now lying on the ground, is going to get soaked with rain water.
Isn’t it possible to chelate this stuff with the right chemical, such as ferric or ferrous compounds? Scatter some rust around.
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posted on
08/18/2015 2:09:04 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Capt_Hank
I quit watching because I got sick of them giving every winter weather system a horrible name and then giving us 12 hours of total panic over a four-inch snowfall.
To: Kartographer
Sodium cyanide is a very useful industrial chemical, especially in the extraction of gold and other precious metals from ore.
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posted on
08/18/2015 2:24:26 PM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: VanShuyten
KIA lost 4000 cars valued at $168 million.
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posted on
08/18/2015 2:28:49 PM PDT
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Myrddin
To: HiTech RedNeck
Now imagine some strong out flow winds from an approaching thunder storm picks up the cyanide and bows it up into the air then the rain comes and mixes with it....
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posted on
08/18/2015 2:29:02 PM PDT
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Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
the Politburo which has kicked off the censorship campaign by shutting down hundreds of social media accounts for "spreading blast rumors."Barry is taking notes.
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posted on
08/18/2015 2:58:17 PM PDT
by
bgill
( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/18/2015 2:59:21 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Myrddin
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posted on
08/18/2015 3:38:03 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
( NOTE TO RNC: I will not be voting for another Bush. Ever. I don't care what his last name is.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
“I guess it’s only bad if they have acid rain, as that converts the NaCN to hydrogen cyanide (HCN).”
I would say that a Cyanide Thunderstorm beats mere “acid rain” all to heck.
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08/18/2015 3:46:56 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
To: PLMerite
I would say that a Cyanide Thunderstorm beats mere “acid rain” all to heck.It's all a matter of concentration. Almonds have that smell because of very small amounts of hydrogen cyanide. In small concentrations, the smell is rather pleasant. In large concentrations, it effectively shuts down cellular respiration, if I interpret the Wikipedia reference correctly.
To: SpaceBar
Look at the good side of it! All that cyanide will dissolve gold in any ore that might be in the soil!
Wonder if any cyanide went into the Animas a few weeks back.
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08/18/2015 4:23:55 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Let Baal plead for Baal because one has destroyed his altar!)
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