A couple weeks ago a freight train from the Norfolk Southern Railway passed through the small Ohio town of East Palestine. According to different news outlets the train derailed and some of its freight cars caught fire. The chemical load started to leak and at the request of state officials emergency crews initiated a “controlled burn” with runoff chemicals, which released phosgene and hydrogen chloride. One of the gasses coming from the fire is Phosgene, which is the same gas that was used in WWI. Having contact with hydrogen chloride is, I believe, not by any means healthier since both of those gasses are described to be highly toxic and dangerous to life. The time reported …
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A couple weeks ago a freight train from the Norfolk Southern Railway passed through the small Ohio town of East Palestine. According to different news outlets the train derailed and some of its freight cars caught fire. The chemical load started to leak and at the request of state officials emergency crews initiated a “controlled burn” with runoff chemicals, which released phosgene and hydrogen chloride. One of the gasses coming from the fire is Phosgene, which is the same gas that was used in WWI. Having contact with hydrogen chloride is, I believe, not by any means healthier since both of those gasses are described to be highly toxic and dangerous to life. The time reported …