Re: [SGish] APC question

I was lead to beleave that halon was actually a dense gas, and if
inhailed
would sit in the lungs, and the normal breathing wouldn`t be enough to
expell it. It would accumalate, and block any chance of breathing.
Standing
on your head when away from the halon would work I suppose <G>.

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From: WJAL21@aol.com
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [SGish] APC question

>. I'm not an expert, but have breathed Halon; interesting experience,
sort
of
>the anti-Helium, as voices dropped WAY down. Girls talking baritone
sort of
>thing.

>I do know the folks that installed it stated it was tricky to get the
>exactly right amount to be fire retardant but non-lethal.>

>In large spaces, such as our computer room, the stuff comes out at
>hurricane velocity. We had two folks in the room during the dump, and
one
>was lucky that a plexiglas partition didn't crush him, while both
looked
>like they SHOULD have suffered a death of a thousand paper cuts from
the
>stuff flying around.

>I'm tempted to mention stupid halon tricks, but this has gone WAY OT.

>The_Beast

Not sure of the technicalities but I do know that breathing the stuff is
very
unpleasant. I had an extinguisher discharge accidentally in a vehicle I
was
in.
There followed a general struggle to locate the thing, get it stopped,
and
to
open up as many doors as possible to vent the stuff. It felt like I had
lost
half my lung capacity at the time.
For the original topic it made me want to get out.