ORIGINAL: TREADSTONE
ORIGINAL: G.KERR JR.
...and it is not killin ya when you breath and touch it !
Glow fuel containing TOXIC methanol is far, far worse than any turbine fuel or oil. Never touched that stuff have you ?
Turbine fuel or oil is not in the TOXIC class
Treadstone,
You and I have had this discussion before back in middle of '06. You were wrong then and you're wrong now AND you're putting out information that may lead people to make bad decisions.
Not only wrong, but exceedingly, possibly dangerously wrong!
Methanol IS toxic , but you have to drink a lot of the stuff (4 oz at one sitting) to have any permanent effect, and so far I've never seen anybody drink glow fuel . Organophosphates on the other hand are toxic by mere exposure to the burned by products
Health and safety (From the MSDS)
Methanol is intoxicating but not directly poisonous. It is toxic by its breakdown ( toxic ation) by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase in the liver by forming formic acid and formaldehyde which cause blindness by destruction of the optic nerve. [2] Methanol ingestion can also be fatal due to its CNS depressant properties in the same manner as ethanol poisoning. It enters the body by ingestion. Fetal tissue will not tolerate methanol. If methanol has been ingested, a doctor should be contacted immediately. Toxic effects take hours to start, and effective antidotes can often prevent permanent damage. This is treated using ethanol or fomepizole[3]. Either of these drugs acts to slow down the action of alcohol dehydrogenase on methanol by means of competitive inhibition, so that it is excreted by the kidneys rather than being transformed into toxic metabolites. Though it is miscible with water, methanol is very hard to wash off the skin it is best to treat methanol like gasoline.