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ProfessorGAC

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4. Worked With It, Too

Reply to NNadir (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 21, 2021, 04:27 PM

Apr 2021

Quite a lot!
While we treated it as carcinogenic, I always felt the biggest hazard was flammability & BLEVE.
Unlike most organic compounds, there is no upper explosion limit for EO.
Nearly 40% of molecular mass is oxygen. While less efficient at very high concentration in air, even at 100% combustion is self-sustaining. And the energy release per unit mass is very high & rapid.
While we treated the health hazards with respect, it was always combustion about which we were most concerned.

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