Re:Chlorine Gas (was Eau de Javelle ( Javel )
To All, The effect of chlorine gas on the lungs is disastrous as I once found out in my devil may care days as a student of photography . Walking around for four days hardly able to breath and holding back the weakening effect on the bowels felt like death was approaching rapidly. As a child, from age five to age twenty five, I suffered from asthma and so my lungs were used to this kind of thing and had been strengthened by the effort, from time to time, of staying alive by forced breathing over several years. The muscles controlling my lungs were able to take the punishment caused by the chlorine gas, until their fabric was able to restore itself completely after about a week. As a keen cyclist plenty of exercise, plus giving up smoking, eventually cured the asthma completely by the time I reached twenty eight. If anyone needs to clear their drains its much better to use one of those twisty wire things which can be bought for one pound. They have a little handle on one end and a kind of hook on the other end which grabs the blockage as you turn the handle. Used one recently at my grand daughter's place with great success. BTW. The asthma, originally, was caused by my father's insistence that smoking was doing us all a lot of good. Moral of this thread ? Stay away from Eau de Javelle ( Javel ) and Fresson /Arvel. Ciao. John - Photographist - London - UK. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:24 PM Subject: Re: Eau de Javelle ( Javel ) >Finally, to avoid releasing chlorine gas, do not mix household bleach with an acid. Lime and scale removers, which often contain a metabisulfite, and acidic drain cleaners (generally sulfuric acid), will liberate chlorine gas from household bleach, as many people have found quite by accident. (I seem to recall that Dick Sullivan had a tale of generating a cloud of chlorine gas while trying to clear a plugged drain.)
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