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- From: xenon@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Re: Methylene Dichloride
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.174617.2632@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 22:46:16 GMT
- References: <NORTON.92Nov18172403@joker.optics.rochester.edu> <69875@cup.portal.com> <jpz10q_@rpi.edu> <1ejbb2INNpak@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1ejbb2INNpak@gap.caltech.edu>, tt@wag.caltech.edu (Toshi Takeuchi) writes:
- > 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.
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- The source of your disagreement stems from the antecedent of the word "it".
- lordj is saying that *paint remover* will remove skin, not that methylene
- chloride will remove skin.
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- > 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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- I wouldn't dip my hand in paint remover either... ;)
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