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Feb 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My partner went out to shovel snow. She couldn’t finish and came inside bc her throat was getting worse. She now has a metallic taste in her mouth and could smell something “funny”. She said “The snow isn’t right. It’s crystallized”. #OhioChemicalDisaster #Ontario #GreatLakes
What chemicals cause a metalic taste in your mouth? It’s strong. She was wearing an N-95 outside.
This is what I also noticed the other day when it snowed.
We’ve dumped all our bird feeders and not filling again until this taste/smell dissipates.

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Feb 18
The snow is weird. It’s now 0 degrees C and the snow isn’t melting. It’s subliming. It’s not unusual for snow to sublime (evaporate) but it usually does it when it’s sunny and it doesn’t smell like plasticky gasoline when it does. 5 mins outside and I’m super dizzy and nauseous. Image
Sublimation means when a solid like snow turns into a gas without going through a liquid state. So is this snow off-gassing? Sure smells like it. Even my partner had to go lie down.
I left a jar out to collect a sample the other day but I just put the lid on. If this has vinyl chloride in it, can I assume it won’t leak out of a mason gar? @CuzzinSnooter thoughts? Image
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Feb 18
Wow. That’s acid. That rock probably was dissolved. Rocks are mostly made of silica and silica reacts with chlorides to form silicone tetrahedral (SiCl4). No wonder the air stinks. And then SiCl4 will react with water to reform hydrochloric aqueous acid - HCL (aq). Fuck!
You can read about SiCl4 here pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Silic…
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Feb 17
Considering oxidation reactions are exothermic, and there’s HCl in the air from Ohio, is anyone asking about the photocycle of HCl in the presence of Ni+? I wonder how much Nickel is in the atmosphere from all the electric vehicle production in Ontario #ONStorm #ScienceIsCool
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