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- From: tt@wag.caltech.edu (Toshi Takeuchi)
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Re: Methylene Dichloride
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 18:38:26 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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- References: <NORTON.92Nov18172403@joker.optics.rochester.edu> <69875@cup.portal.com> <jpz10q_@rpi.edu>
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- In article <jpz10q_@rpi.edu> lordj@rpi.edu writes:
- (about methylene chloride)
-
- > I meant in paint removers. It's mixed in with god knows what else
- >and will remove skin in a matter of seconds. I've never seen pure
- >methylene chloride outside of the lab.
-
- No, it doesn't remove skin at all. It just sort of goes through the skin
- and make it dry as someone pointed out. It also makes the skin tingle
- with some sort of pain.
-
- However!!
-
- Don't be stupid and intentionally dip you hand in methylene chloride
- to check it out unless you like to eat up your liver...
-
- Toshi
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