Halon: Still Legal After All These Years
Two forms of halon are in use today: 1211 and 1301. The four-digit identifiers actually describe the makeup of the chemical itself, with the leading "1" indicating that there's one carbon atom--the carbon at the center of what had been a methane gas molecule before it was halogenated. The next three...
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