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. 😉