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If ammonia is safe enough for agricultural use, then it may also be sensible for other large-scale applications, like powering ships and industrial processes.
by p1mrx 5y ago
If ammonia is safe enough for agricultural use, then it may also be sensible for other large-scale applications, like powering ships and industrial processes.
You definitely wouldn't want it in your car though.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoWell, gasoline isn't exactly a benign substance, either. It would be interesting to compare the number of people burned to death in gasoline fires to those poisoned by ammonia vapor. My gut tells me that gasoline is currently responsible for more fatalities, but I don't have any hard facts on that. Of course the number of ammonia deaths would go up to some degree if it were used in cars, but that would be offset by fewer gasoline deaths.
- AngryData 5y agoIf by safe you mean one of the things farmers fear the most in an already dangerous job. Even as a kid working around farm equipment, silos, and all sorts of dangerous chems, I was warned to stay far away from any ammonia tanks, and farmers are never having a good time when they are hauling a tank of it. Tank full of pesticide? "Yeah go ahead and put some in a pop bottle and mix it with random shit you find in the barn and throw bugs in it" An ammonia tank? "Don't even go near it, especially if it is being used or being hauled."