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ProfessorGAC

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6. Very, Very Dangerous

Reply to TheRealNorth (Reply #3)

Mon Aug 16, 2021, 04:22 PM

Aug 2021

The IDLH (Immediately Dangerous To Life & Health) level is 100ppm.
Levels up to 50ppm can be managed for 6-8 hours with a yellow labeled respirator, but 100ppm or higher requires SCBA.
I've done some lab work with it in small cylinders. (Don't recall for sure, but maybe 100g quantities.)
It not only was only used in a hood, but it was STORED in a hood, with a scrubber & no off switch on the blower.
Nothing to be taken lightly.

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TX chemical plant had poisonous gas leak. GOP Representative upset residents advised to mask up [View all] Nevilledog Aug 2021 OP

I'm old, so I'll say this the old fashioned way OLDMDDEM Aug 2021 #1

He's Had His Head Up Trump's Ass So Long, He's Used To Noxious Fumes nt smb Aug 2021 #4

Briscoe needs to make a fast fact-finding tour and find out if the stuff really does Vinca Aug 2021 #2

You need like a full gas masks for hydrogen sulfide TheRealNorth Aug 2021 #3

Yeah, I don't get that one either. You need to get some P100's or 3M 6002s. TheBlackAdder Aug 2021 #5

Very, Very Dangerous ProfessorGAC Aug 2021 #6

Nice to get short, sweet, accurate information. Especially when it's dangerous to health. marble falls Aug 2021 #12

Stay indoors-- apparently he objects to that advice too. viva la Aug 2021 #9

Somehow I knew it would be Briscoe Cain. Paladin Aug 2021 #7

Wearing a face mask Disaffected Aug 2021 #8

Activated Carbon Respirators Will Be Ok... ProfessorGAC Aug 2021 #15

Interesting, I did not know Disaffected Aug 2021 #16

If You Worked In An Oil Patch... ProfessorGAC Aug 2021 #17

I had a job at head office with field trips Disaffected Aug 2021 #18

He is certainly free to go outside and breathe it all in. LisaL Aug 2021 #10

That's just it, no one did. His daddy tole him just to go out back and suck it up and be little man. marble falls Aug 2021 #13

That asshole's rownesheck Aug 2021 #11

A face mask would be useless against that gas madville Aug 2021 #14