On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:23:11 +0000, Larry wrote:

Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
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So 'Yes' to the plot then.

:-)


I think more "no" to the lawyers waiting to sue the battery store selling
acid.

Just say no to lawyers? Good idea. Use a shotgun.

Would YOU want to sell highly toxic acid to litigation-happy
customers? Are you crazy?!!

The acid is not particularly toxic, just corrosive. It is hydrogen
ions, found in your stomach already, and sulphate ions. Magnesium
sulphate is the well known Epsom salts. You can swallow a lot of it,
and while it is a laxative, it will not poison you. Vinegar is the
toxic one. A pint of regular vinegar will likely kill you. It is a
popular means of suicide in Russia. All you need is, oddly enough,is
over the counter antacids, to drink a good bit of dilute sulfuric
acid and suffer no real ill effects. The 98% stuff is highly dangerous
and they sell that to open clogged drains. The battery stuff is
dilute, and much less dangerous.

They sell concentrated sulfuric acid at the grocery store, as well as
deadly vinegar and glycol, not to mention lye, pure sodium hydroxide.
That stuff is really corrosive. It will dissolve a human body. The fat
turns into soap. You want grocery store toxic, check out the thallium
salts. Sold to kill ants. Mouse poison, roach poison, fly killer. Some
of that stuff is quite similar to nerve gas. Lots of hazmat at the
supermarket. For the inhaler of glue, toluene by the quart.

Casady

(Richard Casady) wrote in
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They sell concentrated sulfuric acid at the grocery store, as well as
deadly vinegar and glycol, not to mention lye, pure sodium hydroxide.
That stuff is really corrosive. It will dissolve a human body. The fat
turns into soap. You want grocery store toxic, check out the thallium
salts. Sold to kill ants. Mouse poison, roach poison, fly killer. Some
of that stuff is quite similar to nerve gas. Lots of hazmat at the
supermarket. For the inhaler of glue, toluene by the quart.


Oh, I know! I used to mix them together to see if we could get them to
explode...again...from under my mother's sink when I was 12....(c;

Remember "Chemistry Sets"?....(c;

Larry
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:04:25 +0000, Larry wrote:

Oh, I know! I used to mix them together to see if we could get them to
explode...again...from under my mother's sink when I was 12....(c;

Remember "Chemistry Sets"?....(c;

Yes. Mine came with some strontium nitrate which is a good enough
oxidiser to make gunpowder. And a strip of magnesium ribbon. Those
were the days. The local supermarket still has saltpeter.

Casady

(Richard Casady) wrote in
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Yes. Mine came with some strontium nitrate which is a good enough
oxidiser to make gunpowder. And a strip of magnesium ribbon. Those
were the days. The local supermarket still has saltpeter.

Casady



The most fascinating things in Mom's cupboard was Parson's Household
Ammonia, Draino, Vanish toilet acid and bleach! With those, you could
bring small 3rd world countries to their knees in an hour!...(c;

The Class of '64, my high school class, was responsible for clearing the
school and cancelling a day of classes to the delight of everyone but the
staff. A girl, whos name I won't repeat, left a chlorine generator
running in a chem lab sink. It filled the sink with heavy chlorine,
which ran across the lab table, across the floor, and the heating system
sucked it under the door out into the hall where it picked up the green
cloud and dutifully distributed it throughout the building. We're
talking fairly heavy concentrations by the time it ran out of fuel! The
first janitor in the building managed to stagger back out the door in
retreat before he collapsed on the back porch until his lungs cleared.
School got a day off as huge fans were brought in to ventilate the place.

As a parrot person, another really dangerous chemical every house has is
Pam cooking spray. The propellant in Pam, sprayed on a really hot pan,
not even toxic teflon, will kill your parrots many rooms away with deadly
Phosgene gas used on the troops in WW1. Of course, overheated Teflon
kills throughout the house. Birders never have teflon cookware...birds
are big money!



Larry
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