From: Stuart Phillips (stuart.phillips@rcn.com)
Date: 06/05/03-02:35:23 PM Z
To be more serious, depending on where you are, the temperature inside your
car may get hotter, especially if you park. When I lived in Kuwait (outside
max shade temperatures in the summer around 130F), the inside of cars would
get hotter. Cassette boxes would bend, and I had small canned air and asthma
inhalers explode in the glovebox.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sil Horwitz" <silh@earthlink.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: traveling with photo chemicals
> -------Original Message-------
> From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
> Sent: 06/05/03 11:25 AM
> To: Alt list <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Subject: traveling with photo chemicals
>
> >
> > Good morning!
> This is such a weird question, forgive me:
> Is there a problem with traveling long distances in a car with a
> pound plastic jar of dry ammonium dichromate or potassium dichromate? My
> husband is the one carrying the chemicals (driving 2 cars) and I would
hate to
> see his car extinguish ahead of me on the road :)
> Chris
>
> If the temperature will not rise above 140 degreees F, there should not be
> a problem with either one. The ammonium salt, however, will decompose when
> heated (don't have my reference book with me, but you can check the MSDS
> for critical temperature). The potassium salt is quite stable unless
heated
> to ignition, which should not happen in your car. I do recommend, however,
> that you wrap the jar in plastic (or put it in a plastic ziplock or
> equivalent bag) and cushion it with bubble wrap or plastic foam pieces,
just in
> case (horrors! Let's hope not) the car is involved in an accident, to
prevent
> this very toxic material from causing even more trouble. Incomplete
> answer, but without my reference material it's the best I can do from the
top of
> my head! --sil
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