bleach+formalin
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| From: | "Smith, Allen" <asmith@mail.barry.edu> |
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Note that phosgene (produced when bleach meets formalin in sunlight
or fluorescent light OR when carbon tetrachloride is heated) is a war gas.
It is 500 times as poisonous as carbon monoxide! Worse, phosgene smells
good: it smells like new-mown hay. Still worse, the symptoms of phosgene
poisoning (pneumonia) take about 2 hours to develop.
Allen A. Smith
School of Graduate Medical Sciences
Barry University
Miami Shores, Florida
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