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  2. Chlorine gas poisoning - Wikipedia

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    In 2015, In Nigeria, the explosion of a chlorine gas storage tank at a water treatment plant in Jos killed eight people. [ 13 ] In 2017, chlorine gas was released in Fort McMurray , Alberta , Canada, after chemicals were mixed improperly at a water treatment plant.

  3. Death of Elisa Lam - Wikipedia

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    In "Watershed", the duo pursue leads in the death of a young woman found dead in the rooftop water tank of the "Cedric Hotel" in Manhattan; among the evidence is a surveillance video of the woman taken in an elevator. Ultimately she is found to have been posing as a sex worker in order to investigate another guest at the hotel. [46]

  4. Health risks from dead bodies - Wikipedia

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    After disasters with extensive loss of life due to trauma rather than disease—earthquakes, storms, human conflict, etc.—many resources are often expended on burying the dead quickly, and applying disinfectant to bodies for the specific purpose of preventing disease. Specialists say that spraying is a waste of disinfectant and manpower, that ...

  5. Lake retention time - Wikipedia

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    The lake retention time for a body of water with the volume 2,000 m 3 (71,000 cu ft) and the exit flow of 100 m 3 /h (3,500 cu ft/h) is 20 hours.. Lake retention time (also called the residence time of lake water, or the water age or flushing time) is a calculated quantity expressing the mean time that water (or some dissolved substance) spends in a particular lake.

  6. Embalming chemicals - Wikipedia

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    Water. Most arterial solutions are a mix of some of the preceding chemicals with tepid water. Cases done without the addition of water are referred to as "waterless." Waterless embalming is more common in difficult cases or those requiring a very high degree of preservation, such as instances of an extended delay between death and final ...

  7. Water cremation - Wikipedia

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    An alkaline hydrolysis disposal system at the Biosecurity Research Institute inside of Pat Roberts Hall at Kansas State University. Alkaline hydrolysis (also called biocremation, resomation, [1] [2] flameless cremation, [3] aquamation [4] or water cremation [5]) is a process for the disposal of human and pet remains using lye and heat; it is alternative to burial, cremation, or sky burial.

  8. Cryogenic storage dewar - Wikipedia

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    In an incident in 2006 at Texas A&M University, the pressure-relief devices of a tank of liquid nitrogen were sealed with brass plugs. As a result, the tank failed catastrophically and exploded. [3] Secondly, if a dewar is left open to the air for extended periods, atmospheric chemicals can condense or freeze on contact with the cryogenic material.

  9. Oenanthe crocata - Wikipedia

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    Hemlock water-dropwort is a plant of shallow fresh water streams, marshes, lakes, ponds, canals and wet woodland. [4] It is usually a calcifuge , and as a lowland species it nearly always occurs below 300 m, [ 4 ] although in Britain it is found as high as 340 m in the Brecon Beacons . [ 20 ]