[ARC5] MEK, benzene, acetone for Q dope.

[J. Forster]

> Carbon tet was good stuff  I remember as a boy being sent to the 5 and
> dime store to buy little bottles of that stuff to be used by my mother or
> grandmother as spot remover.

"Carbona" I think.

>  I am not sure of its "out of the bottle"
> toxicity but I do remember that under heat it broke down into phosgene gas
> and that you could buy fire extinguishers that where nothing more than
> carbon tet 

"Pyrene"

> I also seem to remember the carbon tet fire extinguishers
> produced too little phosgene to matter unless you where in a really small
> unventilated place in which case the smoke from the fire would be as bad
> or worse.
>
> Somewhat off topic but we have all heard the stories of head lice and bed
> bugs coming back.   DDT works really well against such vermin, the
> weaken birds eggs stories from DDT ingestion are base on a small number of
> really poorly conducted scientific research  the feed for the lab birds
> had no calcium  and humans can eat DDT in fractional pound does with no
> short term or long term effect.

Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring". One of the bibles of the environmental
movement. DDT was really effective against Maleria-carrying sdheeters.

> A few months ago I found a recipe for DIY DDT.   It didn't look overly
> hard------

-John

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