The Brooklyn Museum Quarterly Volume 1 by Brooklyn Museum
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Author: Brooklyn Museum
Page Count: 52 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130559453
Download Link: The Brooklyn Museum Quarterly Volume 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...the benefit of museums and all institutions where commercial carbon bisulphide is employed for the destruction of dermestes and other insect pests, we offer the following account of a grave accident due to this chemical. On May 12, 1914, three of the Museum's attendants were fumigating, according to custom, one of the natural history groups in the central section of the building. The glass front of the exhibit was first removed and liquid carbon bisulphide sprinkled on the specimens within thecase. The front was then replaced, and while it was being made fast with screws the vapor in the case exploded, detonating with such violence that a partition two hundred feet away and in another angle of the building was blown out of place. Several exhibition cases and many sheets of plate glass in the central section were wrecked. The three men employed in the work were injured by the shock and by flying glass, and one of them later succumbed to his wounds. The explosion was followed by a fire which, however, was soon extinguished. A subsequent examination showed that the thick, fire-brick structure of two adjacent walls had been crushed in by the force of the explosion, and that small pieces of plate glass had been shot to a distance of three hundred feet. An analysis of the chemical which caused the explosion proved it to be practically pure carbon bisulphide with a boiling point at 46.2 C. According to a recognized authority "An atmosphere composed of one volume of carbon bisulphide vapor to approximately 14.3 volumes of air is liable to violent explosion in the presence of fire of any kind whatever, or a temperature of about 300 F. without flame. We have here about the maximum danger point from explosion in the use of carbon bisulphide." In the present ...
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