On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:19:56 -0600, Oleg Lego
wrote:

The Robert Bonomi entity posted thusly:

Would you believe "Carbon tetra-chloride"?

It _does_ extinguish fires. But the gas it givesoff is rather dangerous.

Minor trivia:
Folks who made hats used to use 'carbon-tet', and it affected their
brains. Hence the phrase "Mad as a hatter".

Thought it was mercury salts that did that to the hatters. The mercury
salts were used for curing the pelts that went into the hats.



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