Re: Blue Magnesium Stars

I sware you just like to argue for the sake of it.

Arsenic is classified as a heavy metal in thousands of references 
political or not, search in Google for "arsenic heavy metal".  I don't 
really care that it is a metaloid, it is as bad as Thalium, and quite a 
bit worse than Lead or Cadmium.  That was the point of my original 
statement anyway, Paris Green is potentionally quite poisonous.

Old Dog wrote:
> "Alan Yates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Its a group 15 metaloid.  Not a true metallic element, but it sits on
> > the Boron, Silicon, Arsenic, Tellurium diagonal, elements on either side
> > have both metallic and non-metallic properties.  It has a fair
> > electrically conductivity for example.
>
>
> My college chemistry texts list it as a "nonmetal". Can't get much clearer than
> that. Even carbon is conductive under some circumstances.
>
>
> > It is usually classified as a heavy metal, especially by the EPA,
> > "inorganic arsenic" which for some reason includes paris green is quoted
> > as such in many of their documents.
>
>
> Oh, for pete's sake - EPA is a POLITICAL organization, NOT a scientific one.
> They're about the LAST ones I would look to for objective, factual chemistry...
>
> -Rich



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