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Posted on 10/03/2001 7:27:04 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Breathing this stuff will kill you!!
It's not bad when heated and mixed with beans of the Coffea canephora and some bovine mammary extract.
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FeSi2 Technical Info This is a large .gif of a scanned info sheet. More in-depth info than most of you will want.
Here is the Material Safety Data Sheet for Ferrosilicon:
As you can see, this is not dangerous stuff. The MSDS shows no significant hazards. If it gets wet you shouldn't breathe the fumes, and you shouldn't use it for casting as some of the possible contents of the fumes (notably acetylene) are inflammable. But you can eat this stuff and roll around in it with no ill effects. Not that I'd recommend either... it's a metallic ore, for crying out loud.
Some reporter neither knows what it is (excusable), knows diddly about chemicals and assumes all "chemicals" are bad (stupid, but typical of today's shallow liberal arts grads), and either doesn't know or doesn't care how to check on this kind of stuff (totally inexcusable, but typical).
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Just what the heck is a "potentially" dangerous chemical? Hell, water is a potentially dangerous chemical. As is peanut butter, U-238, and my wife!
ferro is often magnetic... boobs that always point North?
The Real Danger is if DIHYDROGEN OXIDE has been released into the water supply. It is a soluble chemical that mixes instantly in water and is virtually undetectable in water.
Although the chemical is rarer in countries like Afghanistan than in countries where it is plentiful, like The Phillipines, it is common enough that just about any terrorist could get a gallon or two and pour it into any municipal water supply and cause untold havoc.
I understand the deadly effects are quite similar to dihydrogen oxide. More people have died inhaling that substance than any other chemical composition on earth. Indeed inhaling it kills about 200 children a year nationwide, most of them under the age of 5.
Would a stolen tanker truck be useful in that regard? Like the missing "yellow" tanker in Colorado maybe?
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