Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #6434
From: <earl_schroeder@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Nobel Gasses
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:44:39 -0700
To: <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
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Brent wrote:

quote: "The element is so inert that Lavoisier named it "azote", meaning  without life... Nitrogen, as a gas, is colorless, odorless,
.........

"Azote" meaning without life is quite appropriate since we lost two
fellow employees at GE Plastics who mistakingly entered a Nitrogen purged
vessel.  Up to that point, we confused 'inert' with 'safe'.  I don't
think anyone will be overcome with the N2 in a strut but don't think for
a moment this is not a 'dangerous' gas.   Earl


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