BTW, the emergency antidote for both ethylene glycol
and methanol poisoning is ethanol. I believe the
liver reacts preferentially with the ethanol, reducing
the rate of the dangerous reactions with the poisons.
So keep a bottle of Scotch in the garage...
Doug
> Ethylene glycol biodegrades rapidly in the
> environment ... in fact, it's worst
> effect is that it degrades so rapidly it can
> potentially take enough oxygen out
> of the water to suffocate fish ! It's also not
> particularly poisonous when
> heavily diluted (healthy human kidneys will remove
> it), kind of like grain
> alcohol.
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