Second guessing methanol

dporritt dporritt@swbell.net
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:27:56 -0500


Blindness if you drink it!

>P.S.  What about the poison?  Jog my memory please.  I remember the list
>discussing it's toxicity a while ago.  I know I'm probably not careful
>enough, I breathe it (hair dryer evaporates it right up at you) and I get
>it on my hands pretty often.

>I'll launch that over into the chemist's domain,  but I know that it is
quite
>dangerous and can be absorbed through the skin.  Liver and kidney damage is
>what I remember it as causing, but I may be wrong there.
>Ed

dave

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David M. Porritt, RPT
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas
mailto:dporritt@swbell.net
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