Huh? Are you saying that because our bodies produce a substance, it
therefore can't be a poison? Our digestive system uses some mighty powerful
acids (sulfuric if I remember right) but you don't want your children
washing their eyes with stomach acid! Likewise for ammonia. Ammonia is in
horse urine, right? That stuff will dance all over lung tissue. Or did I
misunderstand?
Lama
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Gwinn" <joegwinn@xxxxxxxxx>
> This may seem strange, but Hydrochloric acid (the principal ingredient of
tinners flux) is not a poison. How can I be so sure? Because our own
bodies make it, in the stomach. Likewise, ammonia is not a poison, it's a
normal byproduct of our protein metabolism. These are corrosive if
concentrated enough, but although unpleasant they pose exactly zero threat
when dilute.
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