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OP Dear Boronia: your shake well reminded me. When sulfa drugs first came out, a drug company
most of whose sales were in the South, where liquid medicines were preferred to tablets was
faced with problem of making a solution of sulfanilamide. A clever chemist read that it dissolved
well in a solvent that was also used as antifreeze in automobile radiators. It was very toxic.
A significant number of fatalities resulted.
I finally remembered the name of solvent: diethylene glycol.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Q.S. wwh 09/14/02 01:49 PM Re: Q.S. wofahulicodoc 09/15/02 12:30 AM Re: non-word post AnnaStrophic 09/15/02 04:08 AM Re: Q.S. johnjohn 09/18/02 08:59 AM Re: Q.S. boronia 09/18/02 04:53 PM Re: Q.S. johnjohn 09/18/02 10:14 PM others wofahulicodoc 09/19/02 06:17 PM Re: others wwh 09/19/02 07:05 PM Re: others boronia 09/19/02 07:05 PM Re: others wwh 09/19/02 07:21 PM Re: others of troy 09/19/02 07:57 PM
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