Comments on: Eleventh Hour: Chlorine as both floor wax and dessert topping http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/01/16/eleventh-hour-chlorine-as-both-floor-wax-and-dessert-topping/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Hot News » Chlorine Gas http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/01/16/eleventh-hour-chlorine-as-both-floor-wax-and-dessert-topping/#comment-1210 Hot News » Chlorine Gas Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:22:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/01/16/eleventh-hour-chlorine-as-both-floor-wax-and-dessert-topping/#comment-1210 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Uncle Al http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/01/16/eleventh-hour-chlorine-as-both-floor-wax-and-dessert-topping/#comment-1209 Uncle Al Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:38:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/01/16/eleventh-hour-chlorine-as-both-floor-wax-and-dessert-topping/#comment-1209 Air has an average MW = 29, chlorine MW = 70.91. 2.4X as heavy as air is not "slightly". Burning pool chlorinator is silly as such and certainly as a source of free chlorine. PCP - a tertiary amine - in PVC would decompose the polymer during extrusion, typically 175 C. PCP itself boils around 310 C. As the hydrochloride one might expect less drama. Alas, file:///C:/WINDOWS/TEMP/Phencyclidine.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phencyclidine#History_and_medicinal_use thermal scission of the hydrochloride to a tertiary benzil carbocation is facile. About 5 mg up the nose will get you trippy. Let's try 5 mg in 5 ml water ingested (conservatively large volume). If 10,000 gallons went through the piping (conservatively small volume), that requires 84 lbs PCP release. Seems unlikely. Air has an average MW = 29, chlorine MW = 70.91. 2.4X as heavy as air is not “slightly”. Burning pool chlorinator is silly as such and certainly as a source of free chlorine. PCP – a tertiary amine – in PVC would decompose the polymer during extrusion, typically 175 C. PCP itself boils around 310 C. As the hydrochloride one might expect less drama. Alas,

file:///C:/WINDOWS/TEMP/Phencyclidine.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phencyclidine#History_and_medicinal_use

thermal scission of the hydrochloride to a tertiary benzil carbocation is facile. About 5 mg up the nose will get you trippy. Let’s try 5 mg in 5 ml water ingested (conservatively large volume). If 10,000 gallons went through the piping (conservatively small volume), that requires 84 lbs PCP release. Seems unlikely.

]]> By: Eleventh Hour: Chlorine as both floor wax and dessert topping | MamentoMori http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/01/16/eleventh-hour-chlorine-as-both-floor-wax-and-dessert-topping/#comment-1208 Eleventh Hour: Chlorine as both floor wax and dessert topping | MamentoMori Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:48:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/01/16/eleventh-hour-chlorine-as-both-floor-wax-and-dessert-topping/#comment-1208 [...] An element so rarely gets singled out from the periodic table for its own … Go to Source [...] [...] An element so rarely gets singled out from the periodic table for its own … Go to Source [...]

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