symboom
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News story about EPA
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/us/trump-epa-chemicals...
Hopefully without being political
I see why methylene chloride may be removed from shelves
Story has chemophobia which are useful compounds
Sometimes the epa goes crazy due to fear of chemicals
Such as signs are put up and in california everything causes cancer.
And industrial pollution which there needs to be regulation in neutralizing the compounds that are hazardous to drinking water and soil such as
chemically making the compound inert
And insoluble
[Edited on 9-7-2018 by symboom]
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JJay
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This article is from 2017.
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DraconicAcid
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It's from October, so it's less than a year old.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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XeonTheMGPony
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Warning: It is known to the state of California that the state of California may cause cancer!
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Is that the sun, the wine or the sand?
However DCM isn't being banned because it's a carcinogen.
It's being banned because it kills people
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/09/21/17991/common-solv...
The dense vapour displaces air and the stuff is narcotic too, so people get drowsy, fall down and die in a cloud of fumes.
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JJay
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I'm going to put a few cans of paint stripper away so that I have an easy source of DCM when I want some.
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XeonTheMGPony
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I suspect you missed the joke.
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JJay
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You don't see California putting warnings on broccoli. It's the corruption inherent in the system.
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Does the joke have anything to do with California's "quaint"" policy of labelling all the carcinogens - except the ones that really matter to
California- like beaches, wine and sunshine?
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