- Remember when you flushed your dead goldfish down the toilet and felt a little guilty because what if the goldfish clogs the pipes? Yes. Now replace “you” with “Metro” and “your dead goldfish” with “acid” and “felt a little guilty …” with “saved a butt-ton of money polluting like the dickens.” [DCist]
- Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics. [Washington Examiner]
- Break a bottle, the Library of Congress wants to rumble! [DCist]
- Security gets saucy at 13th and F NW. [Holla Back DC]
- Prince of Petworth celebrates his 3rd birthday at Wonderland. [Prince of Petworth]
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Ha, ha, in chemistry lab we had to handle hydrofluoric acid with extreme care, and I see now that it is used routinely in carwashes all across the country. As the article mentions:
HF is not like other highly corrosive acids. Mix it with equal parts of water (as many overzealous operators do when cleaning bay walls), spill a little on your unprotected hand and you won’t even feel any pain as it begins to burn through your skin, searching for the calcium in your bones.
Because of the fluorine’s numbing effect, it could be a full day before you begin to notice that your soft tissue and bone are being eaten away by this toxic chemical that has two favorite sources of calcium – bones and concrete.
Breathe in just a small amount of that 50 percent solution and you’ll be dead – killed by the fumes of a highly toxic chemical that carwash and detail shop operators across the country are liberally sloshing on bay walls, spritzing on dirty wheels and pumping into their pre-soak.
We should probably just all die right now and get it over with.
but the Metro is so clean!
Hydrofluoric acid (HF), highly diluted, is harmless. You could dump a thousand gallons down a storm drain, and it will just fluoridate the river… the fish will have strong healthy teeth.
The solution to pollution is always dilution. And not only will the fish have strong healthy teeth the sewer pipes will be shiny and all the cars in the river will have shiny wheels. It’s all win-win. My congratulations to the city for finally coming up with a way to clean the turds off all the junk in the river.
Maybe the hydrofluoric acid will kill off the snakeheads.
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