If you are caught chewing on your railroad equipment, Ya should get cancer!!! Kevin
The state of the State of California is known to be hazardous to one’s health and cause cancer!
(smoky, smoggy)
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I bought a 6 foot inflatable killer whale for my kids to play with at the beach. On the warning label it said that kids under three shouldn’t play with it because they could choke on it. I’ll take my chances! [:D]
Magnus
Jason…don’t worry about it…you live in Washington! [swg]
Rotor
I teethed on my first Lionel box car (acquired at the ripe old age of 5mo 4da.) It was one of those real tinplate type - lithographed tin can metal.
That was seven decades ago. I haven’t developed cancer yet - and cancer is the usual cause of death in my family.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
[i] Don’t let the warnings bother you. They sure as Hell don’t bother us–we’re laughing as hard as the rest of you.
Tom [/i]
But there is one thing they don’t warn you about because it’s not included on the list and that’s dihydrogen monoxide. That stuff can be lethal in any form. The worst part is, too little of it can kill you as well.
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
Tee hee.
Andre
Hi, Andre.
Isn’t that dihydrogen monoxide the same stuff that an earlier poster said was supposed to be washed away with water if you spill it?
Don’t know about extinguishing it with water - I’ve never managed to get it to ignite.
Funny. I have a glass of the stuff about a foot away from my right elbow. (Distilled, at that. Not a kidney stone in a carload.)
I use a lot of it on the layout, too. Maybe I’d better be more careful…
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with water and water-based products)
I know the TRUE cause of cancer:
Cruelty to white rats!
Yeah, it is. It’s not supposed to be flammable, however there are several recorded instances of fires on the Cuyahoga River in Ohio (flows through Cleveland). However, it wasn’t the dihydrogen monoxide that burned, but the volatile chemicals floating on the surface. I don’t personally recall any instance where dihydrogen monoxide was successfully ignited.
The really interesting thing is that if you take the component parts of dihydrogen monoxide as separate items and add an ignition source, you get heat, a light show and water in its vapor state. They found that out the hard way at Lakehurst, NJ, in 1937.
It’s been years since I’ve had chemistry, but I believe that most, if not all, of the alkali metals like sodium, potassium, rubidium, etc., will actually start a fire if dropped in water. Don’t remember the mechanism, but I think it has something to do with a reaction to the water that creates hydrogen coupled with sufficient heat to ignite the hydrogen.
Maybe someone with a background in chemistry can elaborate.
Andre
Back to the refer and the glue. Perhaps the refer had lead paint on it. Seems we heard alot about all the Chinese imported toys having led paint last Christmas.
Yep! You really don’t want to breath THAT stuff![:D] A college circulated a petition to it’s students trying to get DHMO banned from campus cafeterias. Students freaked out when they found out workers were adding it to most of their food. It’s amazing how many college idiots signed the petition…[D)]
Yep! You really don’t want to breath THAT stuff! A college circulated a petition to it’s students trying to get DHMO banned from campus cafeterias. Students freaked out when they found out workers were adding it to most of their food. It’s amazing how many college idiots signed the petition…
That’s what we get when we don’t insist that every high school kid take a chemistry course. I won’t go into biology, math at least up to trigonometry, and a basic physics course.
I remember the first time I heard the expression “dihydrogen monoxide” in some blurb about its supposed toxicity.
Reaction 1: WTF is DHMO, followed about 1/2 second later with
Reaction 2: Aw fer crying out loud, that’s H2 (dihydrogen) O (monoxide).
Reaction 3: Who is stupid enough to believe that this stuff ought to be banned?
From what I’ve seen, there are quite few.
Back in the 50’s, a group went around with a copy of The Bill Of Rights from the Constitution and asked people to sign a petition to enact them. A good number of people refused to sign because they thought it was some kind of Communist document. So much for Civics class.
Stupidity knew no limits then and things don’t seem to have changed much.
One thing I will tell you, though. There is no way I would pollute a nice glass of single malt scotch by adding DHMO in either liquid or solid form. DHMO has its uses, but not there.
Andre
Robert Heinlien said it best:
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF HUMAN STUPIDITY!
That said, I’m an O scaler. Does this mean I’ll get a bigger cancer?
I have actually gotten dihydrogen monoxide to ignite. All it took was to electrically “excite” the dihydrogen monoxide, then recombine the molecules. [;)]
When said molecules are re-combined in a rubber balloon, it lights off with a BANG! [:-^]
Rotor
And try a Legislature full of idiots that trace their heritage back to moving here from OTHER states! [:-^]
Tom [sigh]
Although it does not make sense, the workplace safety laws may require an MSDS for distilled water if only to confirm “scientific” proof that the stuff is not hazardous.
I used to be a safety engineer. It depends on the packaging of the chemical. If in small conrtainers for consumer use, it is exempt; if in a large container for “industrial” use an MSDS is required on the jobsite. Probably on shipboard the distilled water was in a 55 gal drum, and if the navy followed OSHA regs on this, an MSDS was required. I used to use Windex and an example. If my company went to the grocery store and bought Windex, they would not need an MSDS in the file on this product; however, if they bought a 15 gallon drum of the stuff, they would need it. The same applies to any chemical sold as both a consumer product and in bulk - like pestcides, for instance. Buy a poison pint at WalMArt, no documents; but a 15 gallon drum at the farm supply store, you need it.
BTW, have you ever tried to read an MSDS??? Most are very technical and not written for the general public to understand; I have a technical background and did not understand parts of some of them. Some others where just boilerplate and almost meaningless from a technical standpoint - thus the MSDS that indicated that distilled water may catch fire. [%-)]
If I remember the story correctly, Cyclamate was discovered by some guy in a laboratory somewhere who set a cigarette down on a workbench and when he put it back in his mouth discovered that residue from what he was working on had permeated the cigarette; he patented the chemical and made a mint. Ironically - and this is what we don’t hear - is that his next patent was for second-hand smoke but he was unable to ever find anyone to buy that one!
You heard about the drunk who got hit in a crosswalk and was transported to the emergency room at a nearby hospital. While he was waiting on a gurney in the ER a nurse brought him a pill with a glass of DHMO.
“What is this?” asked the drunk.
“It’s dihydrogen monoxide,” replied the nurse.
“My good god!” yelled the drunk. “That stuff can be fatal! It’s worse than water!”
W.C. Fields, no doubt.
Andre
The Man Show set up a booth in a crowded mall and asked women to sign a petition to stop women’s suffrage! They said about 70% of the women signed it saying they had “suffraged” long enough!![(-D] One woman stood there screaming at them trying to explain what it was they were signing but it didn’t phase them at all. Just kept signing their rights away![D)]