From: Sandy King (sanking@CLEMSON.EDU)
Date: 02/21/03-01:27:28 PM Z
Katharine Thayer wrote:
>
>I think the idea of a list-sponsored set of safety guidelines is a good
>idea, but I also think that the people writing the information should be
>knowledgeable about chemistry and how to handle chemicals. To say that
>the two opposing sides on the aqua-regia issue have to draft a common
>safety guideline on aqua regia is to me like putting holocaust survivors
>and holocaust deniers in a room together and telling them that they have
>to write a common history of WWII, and if they can't agree, then you'll
>post both of their points of view as if they were equally valid.
>
>
>Rather than asking the two extreme positions on this issue to try to
>find common ground, I think it may be better to have someone less
>involved with the debate but knowledgeable about chemistry, draft a
>simple guideline for aqua regia. Someone in this thread proposed a short
>sensible list starting with "Use a hood...." which I can't locate in
>the archives now but seems to me like a good place to start.
>
>
>My 2cents.
>Katharine Thayer
>
What Katharine says is clearly one of the more lucid responses we
have seen to the aqua regia debate. I would encourage Gord to pursue
this path and hope that everyone else would engage in self-censorship
on this issue.
Sandy King
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