At 11:56 PM 9/13/2005, Ed Storms inaccurately pontificates:
Michael Foster wrote:
Is Ed Storms actually a Super Double Secret Dysinformation
Agent who has penetrated the white knights of Vortex-L?
...
Storms: This is not true, a proper person can buy heavy-water. The issue
is liability. D2O is a poison. Therefore, like all
such chemicals, it is sold only to businesses.
Now either Ed is stupid or uninformed, which I seriously
doubt, or he assumes that I am stupid and/or uninformed,
which I guess is open to speculation. You need to replace
half the water in your body with D2O before it becomes
toxic. On that scale, Karo syrup is more poisonous.
Storms: Well Michael, I have no trouble buying heavy water.
Despite Storms' claim, it has gotten more difficult to obtain heavy water.
Despite Storms' claim, compared to many things, D2O is NOT poisonous
in small amounts.
In small amounts, D2O is used in medical tests, medical studies, and
even as a tracer in drug-compliance studies.
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Storms: The difference between D2O and Karo syrup is that you would know
that you were drinking D2O.
Despite Storms' claim to having an unusually-sensitive tongue which he
alleges can detect D2O,
one would NOT know they were drinking D2O. They have the same taste.
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http://www.google.com/search?hs=v2o&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=taste%22heavy+water%22+humans&btnG=Search
[ FWIW, however, some types of rats reportedly can detect D2O in very
high doses
http://www.ebmonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/152/4/677 ]
Refs:
Pharmacological uses and perspectives of heavy water and deuterated
compounds by D.J. Kushner, Alison Baker, and T.G. Dunstall;
Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol./Rev. Can. Physiol. Pharmacol. 77(2): 79-88
(1999)
Material Safety Data Sheet on
D2O http://www.msdsonline.com/Tools/DMSDS.asp?MSDS_Id=56247&Lib=Y
ECOTOX: http://www.epa.gov/ecotox/
PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts): http://www.csa2.com/
Myth: You can commit suicide by drinking X litres of
D2O http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/myths/d2o_death.html
http://www.google.com/search?hs=Wkg&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=toxicity+%22heavy+water%22&btnG=Search
