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Originally Posted by Houdini
I was part of a fuel unit in the Gulf War Episode 1 and we had roughly 12 million gallons of Deisel with about 4 million gallons of kerosene.Run the Kero through a filter seperator a time or 2 and you have JP-4 I do believe it was.
I didn't pay much attention in fuel class due to being an Engineer...I just wanted to see what happens when it explodes.
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Made a back up copy of this thread; and corrected a couple of web pages that were broken; not at the same location as now, 9 years later.
http://www.valdezlink.com/gwv/fuel.htm#4
According to a post on patriotfiles.com
www.patriotfiles.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-32562.html Back up <--- link there were
4 million gallons of kerosene brought into the first Gulf war. When burned, already being refined, it must become a strong version of glycol ether chemicals; and the cause of harm to some soldiers who were burning it ... even for those who passed nearby.
C6H14O2(2-butoxyethanol) Per MSDS, EGBE causes AIHA
http://www.valdezlink.com/re/health/kerosene.htm
Chad of Indiana (upper right photo) shared that he had a job of burning human waste, etc with kerosene. He has 'the syndrome '  A man who worked for a contractor in Iraq more recently went out jogging past the burn pits, and had sudden blood in urine, hemoglobin dropped from 13 down to 4; hematocrit went from 40 to 11 Man in Iraq with sudden, acute AIHA * LINK after jogging past the burn pits Returned to the States and was diagnosed with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia Has had 4 series of Rituxin treatments; 73 blood transfusions; gamma globulin treatments, too Has been in remission on the AIHA and also for NHL which showed up. His home is in Valdez, Alaska; worked in Iraq as civilian with Halliburton |
| Thus it is the KEROSENE that can cause similar harm as glycol ether exposure! |
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Kerosene molecular formula C12H26
No O2 ... BUT there is plenty of air when burned
No oxygen, but when it's burned, there is lots of O2 to add in |
| Quote: "That is just one of a whole lot of hydrocarbons in kerosene (and even at that, it is incorrect because, in chemistry, capital letters do matter). Kerosene is not a compound but a mixture of many hydrocarbons as well as smaller quantities of other chemicals and so does not have a chemical formula." |