Oh, great. Now you're probably going to tell me to not drink turpentine.
MOTHER.
On 4/4/23 20:33, Henry Spencer wrote:
On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, roxanna Mason wrote:
I got a 5 gallon drum free from quaker oats back around 1986.Stinks and is toxic, they were glad to get rid of it I'm sure.
Not severely toxic -- a bit more so than methanol -- although there is some suspicion it may be somewhat carcinogenic (as is gasoline...). Traces occur in many foods, and in fact small amounts are used as a flavoring food additive! Not particularly dangerous because its vapor pressure is quite low and it's not absorbed significantly through the skin (although it's a skin irritant); just don't drink it...
Henry