Those gases are heavier than air. The people are either in the cloud or walking around with the cloud at their ankles. Their cats and dogs are in the cloud. With any luck, the gases should have dissipated, but not a good idea to sleep on the rug. I have to wonder if the source chemical, vinyl chloride, would have been less dangerous.
Edit: I went and checked. Vinyl chloride might be worse. No good outcome.
With luck, the stuff will abate, dilute, and degrade in a short while. As long as symptoms are not noticed, things will be okay going forward. My concern is that they failed to warn the farmers that their animals would be more vulnerable, due to the ground-hugging nature of the gases. God only knows what it did to the population of earthworms.
Those gases are heavier than air. The people are either in the cloud or walking around with the cloud at their ankles. Their cats and dogs are in the cloud. With any luck, the gases should have dissipated, but not a good idea to sleep on the rug. I have to wonder if the source chemical, vinyl chloride, would have been less dangerous.
Edit: I went and checked. Vinyl chloride might be worse. No good outcome.
Well hopefully people posted instructions for those residents on how to survive it long term
With luck, the stuff will abate, dilute, and degrade in a short while. As long as symptoms are not noticed, things will be okay going forward. My concern is that they failed to warn the farmers that their animals would be more vulnerable, due to the ground-hugging nature of the gases. God only knows what it did to the population of earthworms.
Well that is mostly good news.
Polyvinyl chloride is known as PVC
It's literally one of the safest chemicals on earth.
PVC is a polymer of vinyl chloride. Vinyl chloride itself is very toxic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_chloride
PVC is a solid... long chains of vinyl. Not like vinyl chloride which is only two carbons long and very light for the non chemists
So is it heavy for chemists? (Askin' for a fren.)
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Not if it is vinyl chloride monomer (what you start with to make PVC). It is a deadly poison. Don't take my word for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_chloride