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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:52:37 -0400
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Subject: Re: Tulsa Lab Incident
From: sstepenuck**At_Symbol_Here**ne.rr.com
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Tulsa Lab Incident
Date: August 26, 2009 1:14:47 PM EDT
> >THF is a peroxide? Shouldn't that be a potential peroxide former.
Yup.
And what an interesting range of perceptions, from the original
"disaster" story to this article's "create a potentially volatile
chemical reaction," which could be translated as "detonate."
The other euphemism "flammable when it comes in contact with moisture"
is also interesting, and perhaps not how most of us would describe the
chemistry of sodium with water.
John's points about "lessons" are good ones. We have suffered
needless bad publicity [and expense] on more than one occasion due to
similar events. It is wise to get your internal act--department/
division/organization-- together in order to minimize the chances of
having to deal with such a situation and its aftermath.
Steve Stepenuck
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