Chemical plant south of Tarragona blew up yesterday, man killed inside his apartment three kilometres away when a steel plate weighing over a ton hit the building demolishing it. Authorities said no danger of chemical hazard but everyone for miles told to stay inside with windows and doors shut. Draw your own conclusions.
Re: Chemical plant explodes
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 3:57 pm
by llondel
It was making ethylene oxide. Just the sound of the name made me think it was an 'interesting' substance so I looked it up on Wikipedia and yes, it is. Among other things, it's carcinogenic, an irritant and an anaesthetic, so it will annoy you to sleep and then kill you.
It was making ethylene oxide. Just the sound of the name made me think it was an 'interesting' substance so I looked it up on Wikipedia and yes, it is. Among other things, it's carcinogenic, an irritant and an anaesthetic, so it will annoy you to sleep and then kill you.
Would love to steal this line, brilliant, but I won't.
Chemical plant south of Tarragona blew up yesterday, man killed inside his apartment three kilometres away when a steel plate weighing over a ton hit the building demolishing it. Authorities said no danger of chemical hazard but everyone for miles told to stay inside with windows and doors shut. Draw your own conclusions.
Gosh.How unlucky is that.
Re: Chemical plant explodes
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:44 pm
by OFSO
Seeing the photos it looked as if the steel plate shot between two other buildings, quite a narrow gap, and hit an apartment window in a third block where the victim named Sergio was sitting, taking out the beam over the window.
Re: Chemical plant explodes
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:26 am
by llondel
When it's time to go, it's time to go. The chap with the scythe will find you somehow.
Re: Chemical plant explodes
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:53 pm
by TheGreenGoblin
What an unfortunate way to shuffle off this mortal coal.
Sounds like it might have been a bleve!
Watch the railroad car fly a kilometre...
Then there was the manhole/metal cover cover that was blasted (allegedly) into space, or not, during a nuclear explosion.
A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE, /ˈblɛviː/ BLEV-ee) is an explosion caused by the rupture of a vessel containing a pressurized liquid that has reached temperatures above its boiling point.