[s-cars] Toluene....and other bargains

[Robert Myers]

There are levels of carcinogen activity, Rod.  True, xylene is a carcinogen
but it isn't among the most hazardous of carcinogens.  Just because your
lab treats the stuff as if a single contact with it will lead to your
ultimate death within the next three years doesn't necessarily make it
so.  Now, if you make that the next 150 years then it's another
matter.  :-)  Repeated regular exposure to xylene should be avoided but a
single contact is unlikely to be particularly hazardous.  Uh, avoid open
flames while in contact with xylene.  That _would_ be hazardous.  :-)

I must also differ with " Xylene on your hands will immediately draw all
moisture from your skin,"  Xylene and water are, for all purposes,
immiscible.  Xylene will remove the oil from your skin but not the
water.  Xylene on your hands is not a good idea but let's don't get all
panicked about it.  As far as the rest of your statement goes, I have no
intention of experimentally applying it to my genitalia.  :-)

At 07:45 AM 11/2/2002 -0500, S4audinut at aol.com wrote:

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>In a message dated 11/02/2002 3:16:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>linust at mindspring.com writes:
>
> > Rod--
> >
> > Don't you think you're being a bit of an alarmist?  Both Toluene and Xylene
> > are major components of pump gasoline, especially for
> > high-grade/high-octane fuels.  See
> > http://www.shellchemicals.com/toluene/1,1098,277,00.html
> >
> >
> http://www.shellchemicals.com/chemicals/products/product_profiles/0,1381,92,
> > 00.html
> > better yet, see Mobil's MSDS on unleaded fuel:
> > http://emmsds.ihssolutions.com/netacgi/nph-brs.exe?d=MRUS&
> > s1=13128-00+or+150
> >
> >
> 24-34+or+15826-30+or+25015-00+or+33126-00+or+47092-00+or+140012-30+or+170019
> > -31&s2=&s3=&s4=&Sect4=OR&l=20&Sect1=IMGTXT&p=1&u=/msds/search.html&r=2&f=G&
> > S
> > ect3=MRUS
> > where it notes both Toluene (5%) and Xylene (10%) as components
> >
> > Also, go google for the gasoline faq--a notation in part 2 that aromatics
> > (both toluene and xylene are) are typically <25% in the US, but as much as
> > 50% in some countries.  hmmm...
> >
> > Perhaps something else is pushing your motor to the edge to consume O2
> > sensors?
> >
> > --Linus
> >
> > At 08:11 PM 11/1/2002 , S4audinut at aol.com wrote:
> > >>
> >
>
>Maybe, But Xylene is a bad carcinogen, and we use extreme caution when using
>it in the lab at my hospital, so maybe yeah, I just dont think so. Xylene on
>your hands will immediately draw all moisture from your skin, how harmful is
>harmful, how attached are you to you (insert appropriate genetalia). As far
>as oxygen sensors, no Xylene and it doesnt have the problem YMMV
>Rod
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