Posted: 6/10/2014 1:16:26 PM EDT
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Fire grenades were glass balls filled with carbon tetrachloride. The grenades hung on the wall and in the event of a fire, a person was to throw the grenade at the base of the fire. Carbon tetrachloride is now known to be highly toxic and can cause serious nerve damage. So if you think about it, our predecessors were such bad asses that they fought fires hand to hand using nerve poison. |
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Fire grenades were glass balls filled with carbon tetrachloride. The grenades hung on the wall and in the event of a fire, a person was to throw the grenade at the base of the fire. Carbon tetrachloride is now known to be highly toxic and can cause serious nerve damage. So if you think about it, our predecessors were such bad asses that they fought fires hand to hand using nerve poison. Phosgene is some nasty shit. |
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There were 27 of us living in a paper bag in a septic tank. Quoted:
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Back when I was a kid, we used to drink tetrachloride every day and we were thankful for it. We had to live in the lake. There were 27 of us living in a paper bag in a septic tank. Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky! |
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Now you get what, lead styphenate? Quoted:
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And before the 1900s we use to get a nice breath of mercury fulmate with every pull of the trigger. May be we just liked to poison everything  Now you get what, lead styphenate? I personally think I prefer the taste of Pb over Hg 
Mercury fulminate - 19th Century Potassium fulminate (et al) - early 20th Century......but are those corrosive primers everyone complains about Lead styphnate - mid-20th Century to present Lead-free - Clinton era Unless labeled as having 'lead free primers', the primary explosive agent in primers is lead styphnate. Many also contain small amounts of TNT, barium componds, lead azide, and even powdered alumium (common in magnum primers).There are a number of none lead compounds that could be used to replace lead styphnate. One I recll is diazodinitrophenol (DDNP), commonly called dinol is the primary in the lead free primers, but is it really safer??? I use to have some carbon tet in in my office. Cool people keep it on hand for ya know....drinking, polluting and stuff 
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I used to collect those. There were models that you actually threw at the fire and others that used a primer, hooked with a very compressed spring. As the fire ate its way to the Red Comet the primer fired releasing the hammer to smash the globe. Then the rest of your house burned to the ground. 
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