Re: [RC] Graniteville train wreck. - Mary Ann Spencer
We use chlorine gas to make beach. It was a HUGE
issue before the war in Iraq started. We did NOT know what condition their
chlorine gas plants were in. OR if they would use it on us. We did
know we would need it to make bleach so we could clean up the place. mary
ann
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.
