Reminds me of an editorial I read in 'Analog' way back when Campbell was still editor.
He mentioned the big flap that folks were getting into when the Army was using rail transport to ship Chemical Warfare stuff to disposal sites.
He said that there were many, many more toxic compounds that were routinely shipped on railroads thru urban areas.
The one that sticks in my mind was chlorine.
Interestingly enough, w/i six months or so there was an article in the 'paper about a derailment that spilled a bunch of, as I recall, anhydrous ammonia which caused a very significant problem for the bedroom community where it was spilled.
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In particular, look out for chlorine trifluoride if you want *really* scary - and they truck this stuff around by the thousands of gallons!
David Shaw
There’s a chemist who has (had? it’s been a while) a blog detailing ‘Scary things people make in chemistry labs’ mainly about really unstable compounds.
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