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Igel

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20. It's not.

Wed Aug 30, 2017, 11:55 PM

Aug 2017

The media keep saying that. People can say "ammonia." They have trouble with "anhydrous organic peroxides."

Haber process, under flooding, gives nothing. It cools down and reaction stops. These puppies if warm spontaneously ignite. That extra oxygen atom doesn't stay quite put and the entire kit and kaboodle starts to burn, and would even in a vacuum. It's basically a volatile organic compound with a built in oxidizer. If confined goes boom!

You can find on the web the kind of things that particular plant produces, and the company site links to a site for a product involving anhydrous benzoyl peroxide in its production.

One DUer, a cut above most, still kept saying "organic hydrogen peroxide."

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Rachel on this now: Chemical Plant Near Houston Warns It's About To Explode [View all] Amaryllis Aug 2017 OP

Get thee to the greatest page malaise Aug 2017 #1

If it happens, I can just hear the government's response. Baitball Blogger Aug 2017 #2

They tell the government... Whiskeytide Aug 2017 #5

I def see a lawsuit coming if anyone is harmed by those chemicals. Baitball Blogger Aug 2017 #6

Yes. Likely. But it won't... Whiskeytide Aug 2017 #8

I would hope this whole clusterfuck will lead to us learning something nini Aug 2017 #3

I would have hoped the Fukushima disaster Warpy Aug 2017 #7

I doubt I live long enough to see something that responsible happen nini Aug 2017 #13

I know I won't. Warpy Aug 2017 #15

Must be too many nit-picking regulations causing this. rickford66 Aug 2017 #4

No, it's having much of the plant under water. Igel Aug 2017 #19

Deregulation at work. Nt HopeAgain Aug 2017 #9

Thanks to Greg Abbott, the public doesn't have the right to know Ilsa Aug 2017 #10

Dominoes falling.......... 7wo7rees Aug 2017 #11

I'm pretty sure it's an ammonia plant n/t TexasBushwhacker Aug 2017 #12

That would be deadly if concentrated vapor was released defacto7 Aug 2017 #16

Found it TexasBushwhacker Aug 2017 #18

Smoke on the water ProudLib72 Aug 2017 #21

It's not. Igel Aug 2017 #20

No word that anyone's doing anything about it.... lindysalsagal Aug 2017 #14

There is nothign they can due. It's buried in six feet of water. Amaryllis Aug 2017 #17

The problem is simple. Igel Aug 2017 #23

Organic peroxides? Speaking as a Ph.D. Chemical Engineer, Still In Wisconsin Aug 2017 #22

At least one container is on fire TexasBushwhacker Aug 2017 #24