death toll and Tianjin chemical blast
reaches 112 as authorities announce
evacuation of 3 kilometer radius from
epicenter firefighters are still
battling new blazes at the site of
Wednesday's massive chemical explosion
at a logistic center in tan Jean China's
government has ordered the evacuation of
a 3-kilometer radius around the site of
Wednesday's chemical explosion in
Tianjin due to hazardous chemicals in
the area the site in Tianjin housed 700
tons of sodium cyanide as well as sodium
carbide and other chemicals when
firefighters sprayed water it reacted
with the chemicals causing sodium
carbide to explode growing sodium
cyanide over a wide area sodium cyanide
is extremely hazardous in contact with
water it emits hydrogen cyanide which is
liquid below 25 point six degrees
Celsius but boils into a gas above that
temperature sodium cyanide and hydrogen
cyanide are water soluble and can be
absorbed through the skin
hydrogen cyanide gas is extremely lethal
if inhaled sodium cyanide and hydrogen
cyanide cause death by stopping any
organs the contact from utilizing oxygen
family members of the 95 people still
missing after the blast
including 85 firemen as well as of the
over 700 injured have accused the
government of lacking transparency in
dealing with a disaster like this video
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