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- From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Re: Potassium Chloride uses?
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 04:23:13 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
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- >In article <19473.2b430f45@ecs.umass.edu> rrooks@ecs.umass.edu (Raymond Rooks) writes:
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- >> Some strange woman came by the lab today and said that she was wanting to
- >>know if we had some KCl. I am wondering why she might have wanted this salt.
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- >> She didn't look like she would have any class related reason for it,
- >>espically since classes are over. Can someone enlighten me as to what she
- >>may have needed it for?
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- >Perhaps she is hypertensive, and heard that KCL is a good salt substitute.
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- No, no! She was experimenting with lethal-injection formulas,
- having heard that potassium chloride will stop the heartbeat
- if injected into the bloodstream.
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- V.P.
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