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To: ManyMoose who wrote (44712)	1/16/2006 3:42:20 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

You might be right about He. Helium isn't poisonous. It's quite inert. Known as one of the "inert gases". :-) Enough could suffocate you, but that's true of lots of things. NO2 is another matter. Enough will kill you by poisoning. Sir Humphry probably shortened his life significantly by sniffing too much. He? I doubt it. NO2? Maybe. With the propensity of chemists to sniff things at that time, it would be hard to lat it on any one thing, though. These clowns are known to have sniffed war gasses, ferchrissakes! And the properties of LSD were discovered by test by its discoverer. :-) No, I was a kid. My buddy and I got carbide lamps because they stayed lit for a long time when we were camping out. I don't think many mines allow open flames any more, not in this country at least. I'll ask my neighbor. He's a mine safety expert. You're probably right. There is that methane just waiting for a reason to explode.