http://consumerist.com/5176870
skulluton@live.com wrote:
>http://consumerist.com/5176870
Not that I nowadays bother to check into any of the frequent postings
saying nothing but a link to something consumerist.com and appearing
to me left-wing type, especially chemophobic:
Organic nitrates have awfully low incidence upon consumers, especially
outside the medicinal application of short term vasodilator drugs.
Other than that, organic nitrates are mainly used as explosives. At
least since "Cellluloid" went out of style (early 1970's at latest) due to
being "excessively flammable" as a "not-fully-nitrated version of
nitrocellulose" (my words).
Although nitrocellulose is much more often used as a "propellant" than
a "high explosive" though has capability as a "high explosive", most
nitroglycerin actually used appears to me to be used as an active
ingredient of dynamite, secondarily as either a minor but significant
ingredient in some firearm propellants or as an emergency vasodilator
drug.
Biggest consumer exposure to organic nitrates over the past 25 years or
so have been "nitroglycerin", "amyl nitrate", and "isobutyl nitrate".
Please keep in mind what those are, what their main uses are, etc. ...
- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)
On Mar 22, 2:16 am, d...@manx.misty.com (Don Klipstein) wrote:
> skullu...@live.com wrote:
> >http://consumerist.com/5176870
> Not that I nowadays bother to check into any of the frequent postings
> saying nothing but a link to something consumerist.com and appearing
> to me left-wing type, especially chemophobic:
> Organic nitrates have awfully low incidence upon consumers, especially
> outside the medicinal application of short term vasodilator drugs.
> Other than that, organic nitrates are mainly used as explosives. At
> least since "Cellluloid" went out of style (early 1970's at latest) due to
> being "excessively flammable" as a "not-fully-nitrated version of
> nitrocellulose" (my words).
> Although nitrocellulose is much more often used as a "propellant" than
> a "high explosive" though has capability as a "high explosive", most
> nitroglycerin actually used appears to me to be used as an active
> ingredient of dynamite, secondarily as either a minor but significant
> ingredient in some firearm propellants or as an emergency vasodilator
> drug.
> Biggest consumer exposure to organic nitrates over the past 25 years or
> so have been "nitroglycerin", "amyl nitrate", and "isobutyl nitrate".
> Please keep in mind what those are, what their main uses are, etc. ...
> - Don Klipstein (d...@misty.com)
Tons of people take organic nitrates for heart problems several times
per day every day. It is not "low incidence" by any means and those
people are the subject of the article.
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