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, or somebody so disguised, wrote the following at
or about 4/7/2006 5:01 PM:
Joe wrote:
You might be confusing this with another potassium compound.
I assume he refers to K2Cr2O7 which is useful in photographic
processing among other uses, and, as a matter of fact, is the active
ingredient in an over-the-counter headache remedy...cannot remember
the name.
Basically it is an oxidizer.

Not correct at all. Read the MSDS on potassium dichromate.

Toxic as all hell, and a very well-known carcinogen.

Amen. Anyone here constipated? This will make you crap!

Search your memory or dig up a manual or packing list for one of the old
A.C. Gilbert, et al., chemistry sets sold as handy dandy birthday or
Christmas presents back circa 1956. I can still recall mine and bottles
of nifty things like Benzine, Sodium Bisulphate, Copper sulfate, etc.
Those are all bad enough. I wonder what else was in there that I have
forgotten about.

Can you just imagine marketing something like that now? It would be
enough to make half the world's attorneys drop dead of heart attacks and
have the other half of them rubbing their hands together so hard they'd
bleed.g