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

[joldenburg2 at new.rr.com]

Carbon tet was the liquid in "pyro-bombs", the red glass globe fire extinguishers. These where fairly commonly used in flammable liquid storage vaults. They would hang them  at the ceiling via fusible links that would melt at 140-degrees.
In these small areas the produced phosgene was a issue.


>  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.
Jon Oldenburg AB9AH
"A bicycle can't stand on it's own because it is two tired..."