[Jewelry making - Article 00618] - Re: [Orchid] Flux & Fire scale

[Ivy Fasko]

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    Annette - Please don't use whiteout, except for perhaps the water
    soluble kind, which seems to be O due to different ingredients. 

    Here's a re-post of the nasty details around what happens when you
    burn whiteout - you can have a look at the article that was run in
    Lapidary Journal around August of last year - they said that heating
    breaks it down to phosgene gas, chlorine gas and hydrochloric acid
    fumes! 

    Ivy 

    NASTY DETAILS: Phosgene and Chlorine Gases were used in WW 1 with
    lethal effects - see the info heRe: 
    http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/gas.htm Here's an excerpt: 
    Following on the heels of chlorine gas came the use of phosgene. 
    Phosgene as a weapon was more potent than chlorine in that while the
    latter was potentially deadly it caused the victim to violently
    cough and choke. 

    Here's where the MSDS lives:
    http://www.princeton.edu/~ehs/labmanual/cheminfo/phosgene.html 

    As to the HCL fumes - http://www.inchem.com.ph/hcl.htm "Irritation of
    the respiratory tract, with burning, choking and coughing. 
    Severe breathing difficulties, may occur possibly delay in onset."



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