At 10:09 AM 9/14/2005, Steven Vincent Johnson wrote:
> 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.
> [
>
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
Steven Vincent Johnson:
This is a lengthy list of collected evidence to support what I presume is
your contention that Mr. Storms often doesn't know what he's talking about.
How much more of your finite resources do you plan to spend on the
furtherance of this goal?
End the end, what will you have accomplished?
"Talk is based upon the assumption that you can get somewhere if you
keep putting one word after another." - Iblis Ginjo
