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> insanely toxic Some quick searching suggests that it’s toxic but not even close to “insanely toxic”. And it’s not persistent in the environment. If you wan
by amluto 5mo ago
> insanely toxic
Some quick searching suggests that it’s toxic but not even close to “insanely toxic”. And it’s not persistent in the environment.
If you want a genuinely nasty chemical, check out methyl isocyanate, which is some two orders of magnitude more acutely toxic.
- bell-cot 5mo agoI'll see your CH3NCO, and raise (CH3)2Hg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury#Safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury#Safety - considerably more deadlier, and the mercury an element - so no clever chemical reactions can break it down into innocuous CO2, H2O, and N2.
- amluto 5mo agoTrue. But methyl isocyanate has the regrettable property that it was quite useful, to the point that there was a crappy, poorly maintained factory with tanks of it on site, with extraordinarily regrettable results. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster