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Chemical atrocities and lab safety.

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Please remember to check CFATS and FSAP when ordering random chemicals that are more exotic than normal, you’d be surprised what’s on there

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@Explosions_Fire Ok

[jackson @jacksonleibach]

We’ve officially reached peak paranoia over hazmat. Now, “possibly carrying hazardous materials” is a thing we are concerned about. I truly think people do not understand what exactly is considered hazmat, and I definitely know people don’t understand how much is shipped daily.

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Hovering, jackson. It’s called hovering.

[jackson @jacksonleibach]

#blackhawk performing a stationary airborne rotation maneuver at Fort Riley yesterday

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*every month

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Recently got wind of a rumor that some company wants to start getting further into the HW disposal business by beginning to offer services to LQGs. I really don’t think people understand how much waste LQGs produce. MINIMUM for an LQG is around 2,200 pounds.

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While producing that in just one month within a calendar year can bump you up to LQG status, most LQGs are producing that much or more monthly. And let me tell you from experience, 2,200 pounds of regulated hazardous waste is a shitload.

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I truly don’t think that company has any idea what they are asking for here.

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@Explosions_Fire I know how to make tha chemistry work, all you have to do is ask

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@Explosions_Fire I am Poland

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@emily_m_arndt you and @funranium probably have a block list that’s longer than a CVS receipt at this point and I don’t blame you.

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@funranium Oh. How interesting.

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The last week has taught me once again that experiences regarding hazardous materials are incredibly relative to one’s own experience, with the nitric acid truck accident being the most clear example.

[jackson @jacksonleibach]

“Environmental tragedy”

> truck carrying nitric acid spills

No. Not an environmental tragedy. Not really anything other than a typical hazmat cleanup, and a very local one at that. Trucks crash all the time, hazmat spills happen on a local scale all the time.

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How many decades? Deadly how? What are we grouping it with? This actually matters, I’m not just being diminutive.

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Interesting assessment of the situation Mr. Bowman. Also, entirely incorrect. This is a terrible situation and definitely escalating, but ffs people.

[Jamaal Bowman @RepBowman]

Nearly 1 million pounds of vinyl chloride were on this train. Now, the EPA has confirmed it's entered the Ohio River basin which is home to 25 million people.

This is one of the deadliest environmental emergencies in decades and no one is talking about it.

[jackson @jacksonleibach]

Again, not to minimize the issue, but definitely not one of the most deadly environmental disasters in decades. Not even close.

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Once again the public is horribly misinformed (for one reason or another) about commercial chemical products. Regrettably I cannot say “this is nbd”, but I really wish there was more awareness about the actual effects and reasonings behind hazmat response.

[jackson @jacksonleibach]

? No. It’s not Chernobyl lite. Not even close. What it is is a release of chemical material into the surrounding environment, something the US is unfortunately fairly familiar with. Not even close to being a good thing, but no. Don’t even compare it to Chernobyl.

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@emily_m_arndt I wonder if this applies to replies as well.

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@SaeedDoroudiani @emily_m_arndt I’m very confused as to how “wait = what” especially in that context but okay.