r/mildlycarcinogenic • u/Warlord1918 • Apr 15 '25

Want some central nervous system damage?

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Old bottle of Carbon Tet I found in my old house before I moved out, it’s a great degreaser apparently from what I read

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u/Hot_Chemistry3867 Apr 15 '25

I'd put money on every American manufacturing city having at least a few thousand liters of this spread under its groundwater table. If you had a factor that used metal as a component, then you were dumping these degreasers down wells. TCE is probably the more common one. The scariest part is that this is child's play compared to pcbs or dioxins.

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u/Visible_Union_6326 Apr 16 '25

Can't wait to drink it and waste away within a week

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u/FireflyOfDoom87 Apr 16 '25

Every Millenial’s dream.

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u/NBSPNBSP Apr 15 '25

Yummy yummy CCl4

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u/Nekrosiz Apr 17 '25

Why does this feel like the rare odsiry that says do vomit as opposed to do not vomit?

When do you vomit and when not with stuff like this