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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

SwissTony

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5. "Aluminum hydroxide is made up of aluminum, oxygen, and hydrogen"

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Sat Jul 30, 2016, 05:48 PM

Jul 2016

I mean, lethal chemicals... What about Chlorine? Nasty gas. Very nasty. Used in WW1. Soldiers caught in it died a horrible death. I don't know if Wilfred Owen was referring to chlorine in "Dulce et decorum est", but his poem would not be very different if it were.

(Christopher Eccleston)

And Sodium. A metal so reactive we don't actually encounter it in its elemental form. But get some of it on your hands, and you will have serious problems.

So, the combination must be horrendous!!!

Yeah, you all know where this is going...

"Hey, guvnor, can I have some more salt on me chips?"

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Lethal” Lipstick [View all] progressoid Jul 2016 OP

They probably use organic, free-range aluminum. trotsky Jul 2016 #1

Oh sure. That makes sense. progressoid Jul 2016 #2

$24 a tube? A small price to pay for cruelty-free aluminum... friendly_iconoclast Jul 2016 #3

That gave me my best DU laugh in at least a week. Orrex Jul 2016 #4

"Aluminum hydroxide is made up of aluminum, oxygen, and hydrogen" SwissTony Jul 2016 #5