Ceicei said:
I take the antidote for the poison and recover. I muse. "He really likes poison."
Nah, just one of those unfortunate areas of expertise that I thought I'd have some fun with.
There is, btw, no antidote for the poison released from the oxidation of
pure teflon, which is, naturally, a controlled substance, though it can, oddly, sometimes be obtained on e-Bay-a point of much discussion for me of late. The poison is, in fact, a toxin of extreme lethality, say, a 100% fatality at 80 ppm.
Overheating of PTFE generates fumes of highly toxic PFIB and poses a serious health hazard to the human respiratory tract. PFIB is approximately ten times as toxic as phosgene . Inhalation of this gas can cause pulmonary edema, which can lead to death. PFIB is included in Schedule 2 of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), as a result of the prompting by one delegation to the Conference on Disarmament.
Most Teflon is treated to stabilize the PFIB, in case momma leaves a pan on the stove too long-though, oddly, non-stick pans are toxic to birds when burned. This stuff isn’t treated, though, and with a density of 0.15 g/cc,and its relatively low median lethal toxicity of between 5 and 350 ppm, depending on length of exposure, a stick of PTFE could produce enough PFIB to potentially kill a large theater full of people, say on the order of 10,000. You could buy it retail, or wholesale, but eBay is potentially anonymous-and most often cheaper.
Relax, though. While the burning of Teflon might be undetectable, it would require engineering a rather special set of circumstances to use it this way-you can’t just buy it and burn it, and you couldn’t readily ascertain how to do so through any commonly available sources….I think.
The fact is, one can obtain a variety of uncontrolled, untraceable materials with a minimum of knowledge, and fashion a variety of extremely lethal WMDs-though thermite, toluene and a variety of other chemicals don’t fall into this category, and Teflon disguises it…..as do many pesticides.
It would take alittle less than a pound of teflon to kill everyone in the Pontiac Silverdome.......
On the other hand, if I, long relatively immune to the hazards of radiation and uranium, due to career long exposure, and only appearing to be dead whilst plotting and recovering,were to take common pool chlorine and brake fluid, and mix them, they would spontaneously combust in an explosive release of burning poisonous gas, wiping ceicei from the side of the mountain in flames, suffocating from severely damaged lungs with supperating sores-well, I'd be monarch of the mountain, wouldn't I?
Instead,though, I just pop up and scare her, 'cause she thought I was dead, and shove her off while she's standing there in shock-I'm monarch once more......
