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Hell yes, and burning it is sure to create dioxins which are carcinogenic too.

• xadhominemx 4y ago
  You can get dioxins when burning vinyl chloride polymers (“poly vinyl chloride”), but not the vinyl chloride monomer, if my chemistry degree serves me correctly.
  • LarryMullins 4y ago
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    • xadhominemx 4y ago
      Well like I said I used to be a chemist so I was exposed to organic vapors every day. if the dioxins are there they will be very easy to measure.
      • LarryMullins 4y ago
        For starters, you could acknowledge that a train explosion is already well outside normal lab conditions for vinyl chloride. Don't pretend you know what compounds were formed in this accident. Modeling this incident as a low exposure (see: your dismissal of the carcinogenic nature of vinyl chloride) to the pure substance is absurd. Put your life where your mouth is and go live there.
        • dang 4y ago
          Would you please stop posting flamebait/unsubstantive comments? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and if you keep doing it then we're going to have to ban you again. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
  • perihelions 4y ago
    AP quotes two different experts warning about dioxins from this incident. Did they get it wrong? https://apnews.com/article/rail-accidents-evacuations-ohio-health-climate-and-environment-3f84663f0b97837cc74a8ce9a50ef6c7 https://apnews.com/article/rail-accidents-evacuations-ohio-h...
    • xadhominemx 4y ago
      Yes, I disagree with the professor. I think you will get very little dioxin contamination from burning vinyl chloride monomer in atmospheric conditions.
      • rbanffy 4y ago
        Can’t heat drive some polymerisation?
        • xadhominemx 4y ago
          It’s being actively combusted…