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UNKNOWN SUBSTANCE MAKES 20 POSTAL WORKERS SICK IN ALABAMA
FOX ^ | 25 April 2006 | FOX

Posted on 04/25/2006 9:00:56 AM PDT by Btrp113Cav

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UNKNOWN SUBSTANCE MAKES 20 POSTAL WORKERS SICK

Must be their performance evaluations.

41 posted on 04/25/2006 9:17:04 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Rachel Corrie's not dead - she's taking a CAT nap.)
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To: Btrp113Cav
Dear Government,

Since you don't care about us and are unwilling to control illegal immigration, lower our taxes and encourage people to work instead of giving them welfare, I don't care.

42 posted on 04/25/2006 9:17:08 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Capn TrVth
..fox just said it: "wasn't a harmful substance."

Guess, why it is a No Show on the FOXNews web page. Another MSM panic news play followed by a non-story.

44 posted on 04/25/2006 9:17:52 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: Wristpin

Ain't that the truth. My husband uses it to make some bait cr*p for kokannee fishing. It's been banned to the garage, and I'm not KIDDING! GAG!!


45 posted on 04/25/2006 9:18:18 AM PDT by sissyjane (Don't be stuck on stupid!)
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To: copperplum

At least you have a possible link to go by.


46 posted on 04/25/2006 9:19:37 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: Slings and Arrows
Per FOX News:

UNKNOWN HARMLESS SUBSTANCE MAKES 20 POSTAL WORKERS SICK
47 posted on 04/25/2006 9:19:41 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: savedbygrace

I think that only smells like garlic after the body has absorbed it and you breathe it back out.


48 posted on 04/25/2006 9:19:46 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: uncitizen
That's 20 more government employees on disability.

You should hope nothing serious happens to these people. And if it does, then I hope you regret this classless statement.

49 posted on 04/25/2006 9:20:07 AM PDT by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
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To: copperplum
Anyone know what code yellow means?

Is that anything like a flank two?

50 posted on 04/25/2006 9:20:16 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: SE Mom

The tiles were made of paper...


51 posted on 04/25/2006 9:20:46 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: sissyjane
Spill this stuff in your house and it will be uninhabital for a while!
52 posted on 04/25/2006 9:20:52 AM PDT by Wristpin ("The Yankees announce plan to buy every player in Baseball....")
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To: Steve_Seattle

My uncle has lots right next to the post office, and reported is was acid which someone dropped on the floor.


53 posted on 04/25/2006 9:20:54 AM PDT by GarySpFc (Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
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To: Btrp113Cav
"We must strike at the heart of the beast! Hueytown must be destroyed!" - Osama at Cave Committee Meeting.

"Err, I meant JeweyTown!, we sent that crap to Alabama?" - Osama two days later.
54 posted on 04/25/2006 9:20:56 AM PDT by Daus
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To: fight_truth_decay

Things like this remind me of when a local office was thrown into a full blown panic and evacuated because someone saw some white powder in the cabinet under the lunchroom sink.

Fire, Police, Hazmat teams, the whole 9 yards.

Uhhh, the cluephone is ringing, it was spilled sink cleanser.


55 posted on 04/25/2006 9:21:15 AM PDT by GaltMeister (“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
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To: Patrick1
In 2005 the USPS handled 211,742,700,000 pieces of mail.
That mail weighed 25,841,500,000 lbs.
56 posted on 04/25/2006 9:21:22 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know.)
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To: Btrp113Cav

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THE MINERAL NATIVE ARSENIC
Chemistry: As, Elemental Arsenic
Class: Elements
Group: Arsenic
Uses: A very minor ore of arsenic and as mineral specimens.
Specimens
Arsenic is historically the poison of choice for many murders, in reality and in fiction. Here, arsenic is dealt with only as mineral specimens and is not to be ingested. Although it has been used as a poison, arsenic has many chemical uses and is quite an important element.
Arsenic does not often form in its elemental state and is far more common in sulfides and sulfosalts such as arsenopyrite, orpiment, realgar, lollingite and tennantite. Due to the abundance of these arsenic bearing ores and the rarity of native arsenic, it is not an important ore of itself. Native arsenic is found in silver ore veins and is processed along with the silver ore and is therefore is a minor source of arsenic.

Native arsenic is usually found to have a trigonal symmetry but a very rare orthorhombic arsenic is known from Saxony, Germany and is named arsenolamprite. The two minerals are called polymorphs (many shapes) because they have the same chemistry, As, but different structures.

An obscure variety name for the concentrically banded or "shelly" arsenic is "scherbencobalt". Some arsenic will have some antimony in its structure and native antimony is nearly indistinguishable from arsenic.


PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Color is tin-white which quickly tarnishes to dark gray or black.
Luster is metallic but the tarnish will often dull the luster dramatically.
Transparency: Crystals are opaque.
Crystal System is trigonal; bar 3 2/m
Crystal Habits include rare pseudocubic rhombohedral crystals and acicular radial aggregates. More commonly found in fine grained masses with concentric bands or botryoidal crusts.
Cleavage is perfect in one direction (basal), but rarely visible.
Fracture is uneven.
Hardness is 3 - 4
Specific Gravity is 5.4 - 5.9+ (somewhat heavy for a metallic mineral)
Streak is black.
Associated Minerals include silver, dyscrasite, barite, cinnabar and nickeline.
Other Characteristics: Will often have a garlic odor and is poisonous.
Notable Natural Occurrences include Vosges, France; Kongsberg, Norway; Saxony and Harz Mountains, Germany; Honshu, Japan; England; Italy and Santa Cruz Co., Arizona and New Jersey, USA.
Best Field Indicators are tarnish, density, softness, crystal habits, color, garlic smell and associations.




Minerals | By_Name | By_Class | By_Groupings | Search | Properties | Elements
Copyright © 1996 by Amethyst Galleries, Inc.

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57 posted on 04/25/2006 9:21:22 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: ansel12

Yes. There is some truth to that...


58 posted on 04/25/2006 9:21:46 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: SE Mom; SittinYonder

Mustard gas has a garlic smell and is a blistering agent.

Just posing that as a theory. I pray it's an overreaction.


60 posted on 04/25/2006 9:22:09 AM PDT by eyespysomething (American liberals like everything about the struggle for freedom except the struggle.)
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