Chemical plant explodes
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Chemical plant explodes
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.
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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.
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Would love to steal this line, brilliant, but I won't.llondel wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2020 3:57 pmIt 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.
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Gosh.How unlucky is that.OFSO wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2020 3:50 pmChemical 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.
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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.
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When it's time to go, it's time to go. The chap with the scythe will find you somehow.
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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.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/1 ... pace_race/
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.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/1 ... pace_race/
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New term learnt: bleve
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.
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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.
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