To: antiRepublicrat
Please remind me...was it cyanide (CN-, triple bond) or methyl isocyanate (H3C-N=C=O)?
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47 posted on
12/23/2007 10:18:01 AM PST by
grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers
Please remind me...was it cyanide (CN-, triple bond) or methyl isocyanate (H3C-N=C=O)? Can't remember, just that it was a hazardous cyano compound ("cyanide" probably wasn't right). Looking up... yep, methyl isocyanate.
Wow, I just found something out. They turned off the alarm siren so as not to worry people, thus people woke up later in a cloud of the stuff.
To: grey_whiskers
It was methyl isocyanate.
58 posted on
12/23/2007 10:55:43 AM PST by
gridlock
("I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" -- J. Wellington Wimpy)
To: grey_whiskers; antiRepublicrat; gridlock
Please remind me...was it cyanide (CN-, triple bond) or methyl isocyanate (H3C-N=C=O)? Although it was predominantly MIC, it has been hypothesized that phosgene and hydrogen cyanide were also released because of the conditions/reactions that led to the release.
72 posted on
12/23/2007 12:56:08 PM PST by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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