Excuse me Heidi. Why did you send me this? A comment was made
to me about how thousands die from drowning every year, with the implication
that water is bad? Makes about as much since as screen doors in a
submarine. Now your making a comment , "good grief, chlorine is essential
to life." So that being you think chlorine gas is?
> MessageWhat the hell does that have anything to do with a
chemical that > is toxic? You can drink water in a chemical free
state and it won't > kill you. Sorta like the recent toy manufacture
that recalled small toys > made of lead. Think that maybe ya
should have a clue that you don't > want to make things that have poison
as part of their name. And > millions of people would die every
day if we didn't have water. Last > time any scientific
research was done, I believe they came to the > conclusion that water
was essential to life on this planet.
Good grief. Last time any
scientific research was done, the element chlorine was also essential to
life on this planet. In its ionic state, it is called chloride--as in
sodium chloride, potassium chloride, and various and sundry other
electrolytes that are essential to life. Geez, I get picked on here
on this list because I don't pump a bunch of extra various and sundry
chlorides into my horses; some on this list almost go to the point of
making dumping various and sundry chlorides into their horses into a minor
religion.
Additionally, Ed didn't say that chlorine gas IS harmless--he
said that it BECOMES harmless. Because it is in its simple elemental
form, it dissipates and recombines (as its chloride form) and is just a
normal part of the environment. (Last time any scientific research
was done, the ocean was full of the stuff.)
Like most things,
chloride/chlorine is necessary to life in some quantity, but just because a
little bit is good doesn't mean that more is better. Which brings one back
to Bob's analogy--a glass of water is a good thing, but if you get dumped
in a large body of it, you'll eventually
drown.
