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- From: aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom)
- Subject: Re: rush?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.023142.17907@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan26.162343.19225@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan28.13203
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 02:31:42 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.132037.4742@linus.mitre.org> lewis@aera8700.mitre.o
- g (Keith Lewis) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan26.162343.19225@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, aankrom@nyx.cs.
- u.edu (Anthony Ankrom) writes:
- >> Would you mean ethyl nitrite? This stuff is considerably more toxic th
- n
- >>the higher nitrites. It causes methemoglobinemia. Or did you just mean
- >>ethyl alcohol?
- >
- >I take it methemoglobinemia == shortage of methemoglobin.
- >
- >Methemoglobin == blood pigment that contains ferric iron and is unable t
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- >transport oxygen.
- >
- >So what's so bad about methemoglobinemia? Who neeeds the stuff anyway?
- Is
- >it a clotting agent or something?
- >
- >Keith Lewis klewis@mitre.org "Mr. Cheap"
- >I don't dance to music; music dances to me. Email me for my PGP key.
- >The above may not (yet) represent the opinions of my employer.
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- I was merely quoting the Merck Index. I htink they mean methemiglobinuria.
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- St. Anthony
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