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Solvent Recovery Blast 2
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georgeverghese
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After learning that corn and soybean oil (and probably other oils such as canola / sunflower / rapeseed and maybe even the cheaper olive oils) are extracted using nasty hexane solvent, I've stopped using "vegetable oil" altogether.
georgeverghese
Chemical
@dik, Looks like hexane (major component of straight run gasoline) is used for peanut and avocado oil extraction too, from what I see on google.
Apparently there was a fire at this Decatur plant some 10days prior to this explosion.
Apparently there was a fire at this Decatur plant some 10days prior to this explosion.
Hexane has caused events repeatedly a spectacular one occurred in Louisville KY
Louisville sewer explosions February 13, 1981
You will like the solvents used to decafinate coffee even less.
In 1975 one of the most widely used solvents, trichloroethylene, That was followed by Methylene Chloride, more recently ethyl acetate. was introduced.
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Louisville sewer explosions February 13, 1981
You will like the solvents used to decafinate coffee even less.
In 1975 one of the most widely used solvents, trichloroethylene, That was followed by Methylene Chloride, more recently ethyl acetate. was introduced.
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enginesrus
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Just look at WW2 USA factory photo's, Lard and Beef Tallow were the oils of choice then. All thin healthy looking workers.
Low cancer rates etc etc.
Low cancer rates etc etc.
TugboatEng
Marine/Ocean
dik said:
I think we should abort calves for consumption. It saves the inhumanity of slaughter and you still get the same protein.
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