Franz Schoenhofer

[Magnu96196@aol.com]

Mr. Schoenhofer,

    Seeing how you just plead you forgot most of chemistry and I want to 
point out your overreaction, I won't place the reply to you, read no further. 
[your comment below].   Organic is not all you forgot, you forgot how to be 
civil too.    And seeing how Ms. Weiner was polite enough to write a civil 
note with non-hostile comments [her comment below also].   What is your deal. 
  I was over to Vienna not that long ago, and it was one of the most rude 
cities that I have been to in Europe----and your not an exception to that 
finding.     You don't happen to work for the IAEA do you, the same place 
that has a bunch of Y-12 nuke folks on loan that don't want the fluoride 
compound problems exposed in Oak Ridge?.

   Perhaps instead of this shout down tactics you appear to like so well, you 
might comment how better to make a statement about the CN-  radical connected 
with methyl cyanide, aka acetylnitrile.  Ms. Weiner was so kind as to.    
Folks around here don't always use the most correct terminology----------but 
this is also not the chemistry 4000 PHd course list either.  What is the big 
deal about each little comment I make, dissected to the N -th degree?  Did I 
agree to defend a Phd Dissertation around here somewhere?   Don't think so.

    Most of the toxic information comment comes right from Hawleys.  Ms. 
Weiner even admits that HCN, aka hydrogen cyanide, will form to an extent 
from acetylnitrile and that she too could have been more clear.  Simple folks 
call compounds with the CN- in the formula cyanide compounds.

    Most of your rant is pure I don't know what--------explicatives deleted.  
 You could chose to be helpful---------or you can choose to act like a very 
impolite Austrian.

Just my opinion, and you should ignore anything I write in the future.  Get 
over it.

Jim Phelps, near the Superfund site of Oak Ridge

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Schoenhofer comment:

"REFRAIN FROM ANSWERING TO ME. I AM A CHEMIST BY EDUCATION WHO FORGOT MOST
OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, BUT THE ISSUES YOU COMMENTED ON ARE SO BASIC AND YOUR
COMMENTS ARE SO EASILY IDENTIFYABLE AS NONSENSE THAT EVEN I CAN DO IT. I
think and propose to other RADSAFERs to ignore this thread, especially
since the lawyer according to my latest information is just a lawyer
talking a lot and having something different in mind."

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Weiner comment:

Subj:    Re: RADSAFE digest 3077--------TN Illness----acetonitrile
Date:   4/7/00 10:17:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From:   ruth_weiner@email.msn.com (ruth_weiner)
To: Magnu96196@aol.com

Yes I am a good enough chemist to know that acetonitrile (a) will partially
ionize to CN- and (b) will decompose to release HCN and (c) I was certainly
not implying that it was like table salt.  It's nasty stuff, and I should
have said so, I guess.  But the juxtaposition of "cyanide" with
"acetonitrile" is misleading.

By the way, acetonitrile is a far weaker acid than   HCN.

Ruth Weiner

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