To: BearWash
Phosgene. Phosgene is a choking agent. When released into the air as a gas, it forms a white cloud and smells like newly mown hay or green corn. If inhaled at high concentrations long enough, it causes severe breathing problems and fatal lung congestion. Like chlorine, there's no antidote, but survival is possible with quick treatment.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?objectid=832829DC-9081-4506-BB736DDDD8192FBF
4,039 posted on
05/27/2004 9:36:40 PM PDT by
WestCoastGal
(Better stand tall when they're calling you out ~ Don't bend ,don't break, baby, don't back down ~)
To: BearWash
Now I remember this was the brown pellet story that was on this bus in Vancouver. There are media reports about it.Of course they wrote it off as not terrorism.
4,040 posted on
05/27/2004 9:39:47 PM PDT by
WestCoastGal
(Better stand tall when they're calling you out ~ Don't bend ,don't break, baby, don't back down ~)
To: WestCoastGal
What kind of quick treatment?
4,050 posted on
05/27/2004 9:54:43 PM PDT by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: WestCoastGal
Phosgene smells like fresh cut grass.
4,170 posted on
05/28/2004 5:01:51 AM PDT by
milkncookies
(BEWARE OF PREGNANT WOMEN DISGUISED AS POLICE WHO SMELL LIKE DYNAMITE!)
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