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It's no longer vinyl chloride if you set it on fire though. A lot of what is going up in that cloud is gonna turn up to be much more persistent and insidious.
by speed_spread 4y ago
It's no longer vinyl chloride if you set it on fire though. A lot of what is going up in that cloud is gonna turn up to be much more persistent and insidious.
- shadowgovt 4y agoOn the contrary, the cloud is mostly CO2 and soot, trace phosgene (breaks down faster than vinyl chloride), and HCL (reacts with everything; is probably fully absorbed into the environment right now). There is a recommendation to clean the soot and vacuum, but otherwise no major alerts regarding the cloud of burn products that I've seen. They burned it on purpose to turn the vinyl chloride and other chemicals on the train into less harmful byproducts.