Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Hydrogen Peroxide

[David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>]

At 11:39 -0500 6/22/00, Captain Nemo wrote:
>I thought about using hydrogen peroxide several years back.  Went to the
>local chemical supply to ask about it; they turned pale.  "We won't even
>keep that stuff around here!" they told me.  "Too unstable.  Prone to
>exploding."

Funny. I was at a chemical supply place, looking for cheap used food-grade plastic drums, and happened to mention that I had one around which had once contained food-grade H2O2, and that I figured that would be pretty good. They turned pale too, but the reason seemed to be that they thought I was looking to buy Peroxide (which I wasn't, which was obvious, so they were just stupid and not listening, but anyway...) -- and they had stopped selling it to anyone without some kind of credentials or authorization, because of a big flap about people who were drinking it and getting it injected into their bloodstreams as a health fad. Really.

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David
Osage MN USA
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