Hopefuldave
Intergalactic pot-mender
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You can't make phosgene with DCM, even if you heat it. On the other hand unless you know exactly what's in the "modern" strippers, you could be mixing up a recipe for disaster. A quick Google suggests Methyl cellulose (a harmless edible compound also used as wallpaper paste) is in fact the "secret" ingredient used to thicken up DCM to make Nitromors. Of course I will bottom it out before I mix it and naturally I will be using as much safety equipment as is appropriate.
I am already wondering what the best/safest/most legally obliging way there is to dispose of the stuff though. Anybody know the dope on disposing of "household" hazardous chems?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosgene#Inadvertent_generation - chlorinated solvents including DCM... It's one of the hazards the lab' I work in stresses to the folks who work with UV lasers (big 'uns) and might be tempted to use chlorinated solvents. Dunno about the UK, but a few welders in the USA die every year or have "life changing" injuries from using the wrong (chlorinated) solvents to clean workpieces
It's also one of the nasties used to make isocyanates and polyurethanes...
Disposal... a nightmare, most seems to be "vented to the atmosphere"! Old Nitromors cans advised allowing the vapours to disperse then wrapping the waste in newspaper and binning it, not sure that's legal now we've all turned green to the core?
Dave H. (the other one)