Anyone ever breathed in HALON before?

[Midlander]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
http://msds.ehs.cornell.edu/msds/msdsdod/a81/m40489.htm#Section3

Based on what I read in the MSD, you're fine. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[phisrow]

Looks like you'll be ok. Unlikely that you were exposed to any breakdown products, and it isn't too bad in itself.

I can't believe that they actually tried to bring you inside during or after a halon discharge, though. That stuff is designed to deprive fire of oxygen, and it isn't at all picky about who or what it suffocates.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: tweakmm

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Uh...halon is used as an extinguishant while one of helium's many uses are as a component in rocket fuel?

I did not know helium was used in rocket fuel.
Hence the confusion.

My fault entirely, as it's a bit of a stretch...

Actually, it's a huge stretch

Well, maybe if your rocket is carrying on some very hot fusion...

 

[Doboji]

Originally posted by: Citrix
you sure its not FM200 gas instead of halon?

positive

 

[Doboji]

Originally posted by: phisrow
Looks like you'll be ok. Unlikely that you were exposed to any breakdown products, and it isn't too bad in itself.

I can't believe that they actually tried to bring you inside during or after a halon discharge, though. That stuff is designed to deprive fire of oxygen, and it isn't at all picky about who or what it suffocates.

Yeah I agree... pretty crappy of them. But I suspect it was more an act of stupidity than of malice.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: tweakmm

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

I did today... reverse helium

Makes sense as it's used for the opposite purpose...kinda

How do you figure?

Uh...halon is used as an extinguishant while one of helium's many uses are as a component in rocket fuel?

There's the "kinda"

No, it's not. You're thinking of hydrogen. Helium is an inert gas that doesn't burn.

 

[pontifex]

i thought halon just removed all the oxygen from the air?

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
You should've lit up a cigarette before you walked in.

That would be the most boring thing ever

Well no that remark was sarcastic. Inhaling a cigarette is bad enough, but in the presence of 1301EA, the smoke would be very bad for you. Ask any HVAC guy that's taken a puff around an R11 chiller with a faulty purge unit.