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Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*> wrote:
>> If acetylene was inert, it wouldn't burn!
>
>I think the phrase "physiologically inert" was used.  I'd like to have a 
>confirmation on that question.  Specifically, if the acetylene 
>concentration is too low to taste, how much harm is it going to do your body?

Isn't the real question whether acetylene will continue to exist at all
in a couple thousand PSI of oxygen?  It might be that any discussion of
breathing the stuff via a backfilled O2 bottle could be irrelevant, and
that the combustion byproducts would be all we'd ever meet.  Any chemists
aboard with the answer?

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