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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I have a degree in chemical engineering. My internship consisted of working in a plant that could produce millions of gallons of oleum per day. I do not currently work in my field because of my cowardice with working with that kind of absolutely terrifying poo poo. Reminds me of this unsettling prep (PDF) for at-home synthesis of SO3. Why would someone want to make this at home, you say? quote:Sulfur trioxide and oleum are exceptionally versatile reagents in the laboratory. Some of the most important uses shall be mentioned here:
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I'm glad I only have to work with radioactive stuff and nuclear reactions, chemicals are too scary for me.
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BattleMaster posted:I'm glad I only have to work with radioactive stuff and nuclear reactions, chemicals are too scary for me. Aw, I imagined you worked with capybaras.
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HopperUK posted:Aw, I imagined you worked with capybaras. My illusion is shattered as well  ...are they radioactive capybaras with superpowers?
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DemeaninDemon posted:That's weak poo poo compared to a lot of chemical manufacturing reagents. Hell you can transport that stuff as a solid and be OK. The real nasty ones are produced and consumed inline on site. Vinyl chloride, the precursor for PVC, for example generally doesn't leave a facility. It also skeletonizes you if you override a poo poo-ton of safety features to release it into your room so you can explode a dozen of your cowokers.
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HopperUK posted:Aw, I imagined you worked with capybaras. Humbug Scoolbus posted:My illusion is shattered as well Ahaha. Well, I'd totally ditch my nuclear engineering career to take care of a capybara exhibit at a zoo 
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BattleMaster posted:I'm glad I only have to work with radioactive stuff and nuclear reactions, chemicals are too scary for me. Had my radiological workplace recertification course this morning. 95 % of radiation protection is taking off and putting on articles of Tyvek clothing in the right order, over and over and over an
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Something just went *FOOF* in Spain and released a cloud of nitrous oxides: http://www.elperiodico.com/es/galerias/catalunya/fotogaleria-explosion-quimica-igualada/81190.shtml According to the Spanish minister of the interior the cloud is "not dangerous, only irritating to mucous membranes".
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Default Settings posted:Something just went *FOOF* in Spain and released a cloud of nitrous oxides: http://www.elperiodico.com/es/galerias/catalunya/fotogaleria-explosion-quimica-igualada/81190.shtml If only man. Then the village would either be getting mad sleepy or meeting god. In the 'woah dude trippy' sense. Not dead.
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Bip Roberts posted:It also skeletonizes you if you override a poo poo-ton of safety features to release it into your room so you can explode a dozen of your cowokers. On the scale of badass ways to go chemically converting your body's matter into explosives has to be high up.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:If only man.
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Default Settings posted:Something just went *FOOF* in Spain and released a cloud of To be fair, the linked article says they made people stay inside their houses with windows closed. They also made kids stay inside schools (there was one teacher complaining they didn't have lunch available for kids that normally go home during lunch break). However, locals are reporting that people were disobeying the rules and left their houses anyway.
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Carbon dioxide posted:To be fair, the linked article says they made people stay inside their houses with windows closed. They also made kids stay inside schools (there was one teacher complaining they didn't have lunch available for kids that normally go home during lunch break). However, locals are reporting that people were disobeying the rules and left their houses anyway.
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I feel terribly sorry for linking to the Daily Fail, but they have a bunch more photos: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l#ixzz3RYyIu4JV
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Carbon dioxide posted:I feel terribly sorry for linking to the Daily Fail, but they have a bunch more photos:  It may be a more common problem in the field of rocket science, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that you stay the gently caress away from orange clouds.
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GWBBQ posted:
Yeah, I expect that would look just as ominous to someone that did not immediately think NOx.
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HopperUK posted:Aw, I imagined you worked with capybaras. Everyone knows capybaras are just giant, radioactive guinea pigs...so there's still a chance he works with them
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Any other color clouds to run like hell from?
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7thBatallion posted:Any other color clouds to run like hell from? Any cloud that has a color
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7thBatallion posted:Any other color clouds to run like hell from? Honestly you're probably safer just running from every color cloud. e:f;b
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In the city where I grew up, there's a chemical plant that mostly handles disposal of hazardous chemicals. Stuff like dioxin etc. can be safely burned at high temperature in special furnaces, and they've sort of carved out a niche doing just that. The story (which probably isn't true) goes that one day, purple smoke started coming out of the chimneys. Of course, this got people in the surrounding area into a bit of a panic, but there were no alarms or warnings on the radio or anything. So someone from city hall called the plant supervisor and asked what in the world was going on, that they couldn't just start putting out dangerous-looking smoke like that. The supervisor replied that the rules and regulations did not specify which color the emitted smoke could be, so they were well within their rights to emit any color smoke they wanted to, thank you very much.
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Geirskogul posted:Any cloud that has a color And to be fair, quite a lot of clouds that don't have colours. And clouds you can't even see.
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Also regular water clouds that are really really hot.
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Clouds that have four feet are usually OK, though - they swap out one Fluorine for a Flerovium - FlOOF.
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Particularly dangerous are those clouds that are on fire. Stay away from those.
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KozmoNaut posted:In the city where I grew up, there's a chemical plant that mostly handles disposal of hazardous chemicals. Stuff like dioxin etc. can be safely burned at high temperature in special furnaces, and they've sort of carved out a niche doing just that. Hahahaha, this is excellent, and also terrifying
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These colored clouds don't run. Because they're heavier than air and linger.
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Truthfully, any cloud that isn't water vapor is probably bad business. Purely white clouds that just happened to erupt from a shell are really bad news (especially if you're a Palestinian), Orange/Black/Smoke colored clouds are also bad business. But the worst cloud, well, that one is invisible.
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I passed a chemical plant getting the bus to school, i've heard that in the event of an explosion (rather than just a fire that happened recently) there is 1-2 mile radius where everyone inside it is pretty hosed. Is that likely to be true?
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Jose posted:I passed a chemical plant getting the bus to school, i've heard that in the event of an explosion (rather than just a fire that happened recently) there is 1-2 mile radius where everyone inside it is pretty hosed. Is that likely to be true? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster Depends on what's doing all the exploding. But yeah you can safely assume a chemical plant going up is Very Bad poo poo.
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Jose posted:I passed a chemical plant getting the bus to school, i've heard that in the event of an explosion (rather than just a fire that happened recently) there is 1-2 mile radius where everyone inside it is pretty hosed. Is that likely to be true? Depends on what they're making. "Chemical" doesn't mean anything in and of itself. Everything is a chemical. Most plants have nasty intermediates of some sort being piped around, but just how much and how toxic it is will be highly variable.
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All right. Now I know to fear any color cloud, and even invisible ones, except for normal boring clouds (excepting thunderstorms, and things that can spawn tornados.)
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Not fear, merely respect.
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I hate having to shave to wear a respirator. Things I do to not die of exposure.
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DemeaninDemon posted:I hate having to shave to wear a respirator. Things I do to not die of exposure. Oh don't worry. If you make sure you work with the right chemicals, just take the respirator off for a moment and it'll burn your hairs right off.
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Not strictly dangerous, but one of the best chemistry papers I've read for a while: A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine
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DigitalRaven posted:Not strictly dangerous, but one of the best chemistry papers I've read for a while: A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine
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GWBBQ posted:This is now my second favorite scientific paper, the first being a paper on how we can eventually save ourselves from solar expansion by moving earth's orbit away from the sun over the next few billion years. Welcome to you're "Doom!"
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GWBBQ posted:This is now my second favorite scientific paper, the first being a paper on how we can eventually save ourselves from solar expansion by moving earth's orbit away from the sun over the next few billion years. Both of those are great- let me contribute another one: The Hipster Effect.
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DigitalRaven posted:Not strictly dangerous, but one of the best chemistry papers I've read for a while: A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine Those made-up author names. 
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