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eppur_se_muova

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3. I think you mean trichloroisocyanuric acid ...

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 10:36 AM

Mar 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroisocyanuric_acid

This is a powerful chlorinating agent and oxidant, so it's helping feed the fire. (It's not an acid, FWIW -- that's just an artifact of the nomenclature system.) Fumes and smoke are likely to contain chlorine, HCl, and chlorine oxides. Nasty stuff.

Google headlines give the correct name.

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Health authority confirms substance burning is trichoisocyanuric acid uppityperson Mar 2015 #1

I think you mean trichloroisocyanuric acid ... eppur_se_muova Mar 2015 #3

I copy/pasted what I saw in one article, sorry. Thanks for the right thing, sounds nasty uppityperson Mar 2015 #4

No problem, an obvious typo somewhere. eppur_se_muova Mar 2015 #5

. u4ic Mar 2015 #2