Re: Non Radioactive Hazard Response - Picric Acid

["Edward John Oconnell" <eoconnell@notes.cc.sunysb.edu>]

What would 20 grams of TNT do??

handbook of Laboratory Waste Disposal (Martin J. Pitt and Eva Pitt - ISBN
0-85312-634-8 Halsted Press/ J. Wiley and Sons) states that "the effect of even
10 g of material detonating can be disasterous. If the laboratory has any doubt
about its ability to handle a particular situation, then it may not be an
extreme action to enlist the help of the military or police bomb disposal
experts" ..  over the past 15 years,   I know we have had to call the bomb squad
in on several occasions.

Hope things stay quiet ..

Ed O'Connell


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