Tim+ wrote:
John Williamson wrote:
Steve Firth wrote:
"Doctor Drivel" wrote:
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Andy Champ wrote:

CO2 most definitely is toxic.
No, not in the slightest.

(Not very toxic, you can take a few
percent).
It's not toxic at all.
Thicko, it is toxic to the atmosphere.
Not even that you lame brained disappointment to your parents. The
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published
by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
toxic [ˈtɒksɪk]
adj
1. of, relating to, or caused by a toxin or poison; poisonous
2. (Medicine / Pathology) harmful or deadly
[from medical Latin toxicus, from Latin toxicum poison, from Greek
toxikon (pharmakon) (poison) used on arrows, from toxon arrow]

(Definition 2) CO2 is harmful or deadly to most animal life when
concentration in the breathing gas is excessive. Therefore, it is toxic.
Admittedly, not as toxic as a lot of other gases, including carbon
monoxide, but still toxic.

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Do you count water as a toxin then? It can undoubtedly be toxic in
overdose but I don't think most folk would classify it as a toxin. Ditto
with CO2.

Tin


U
Toxic, in greenspeak, means, 'something we can plausibly spin as
dangerous about the competition's product, that doesn't appear in ours,
at least superficially'


It has no medical or chemical implications whatsoever.


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