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NEWS: Kuroko's Basketball Threat Likely Had Lethal Dose of Hydrogen Sulfide


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Tanteikingdomkey



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:13 pm Reply with quote
SERIOUSLY WTF this is getting really bad
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RyanSaotome



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:20 pm Reply with quote
Wow, this guy really does want to kill the mangaka, huh?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:28 pm Reply with quote
How the heck is somebody able to get hydrogen sulfide?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:42 pm Reply with quote
trunkschan90 wrote:
How the heck is somebody able to get hydrogen sulfide?


Certain commercial industries use it, which may help police figure how where this person likely works.
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Tanteikingdomkey



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:03 am Reply with quote
octopodpie wrote:
trunkschan90 wrote:
How the heck is somebody able to get hydrogen sulfide?


Certain commercial industries use it, which may help police figure how where this person likely works.

if they are a college student all they would have to do is walk into a chemistry lab to get it in a lot of cases. the security for the chemicals is really bad in many cases (had to take a lot of chem labs).
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:47 am Reply with quote
trunkschan90 wrote:
How the heck is somebody able to get hydrogen sulfide?


Aum Shinrikyo anyone.

They made homemade Sarin and other toxic gases and used them on public targets.

They probably are the first terrorist (religious cult) group to actually use WMD on civilian targets. One could say, they made fiction into reality.

So if they could make nerve agents and other poisonous gases, anybody can.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:02 am Reply with quote
Someone seriously can't do chemistry. Hydrogen Sulphide or H2S is the gas that you smell in thermal pools, ie that 'rotten egg' smell. There is no way that an envelope of white powder contains H2S as it is a gas after all. It could have contained Sodium Sulphide which will release some H2S if you add it to an acid solution.

BTW .. H2S can be toxic but you basically need to fill a room with it.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:10 am Reply with quote
ScruffyKiwi wrote:
Someone seriously can't do chemistry. Hydrogen Sulphide or H2S is the gas that you smell in thermal pools, ie that 'rotten egg' smell. There is no way that an envelope of white powder contains H2S as it is a gas after all. It could have contained Sodium Sulphide which will release some H2S if you add it to an acid solution.

BTW .. H2S can be toxic but you basically need to fill a room with it.

It's deadly enough to charge this idiot with attempted murder.
Good enough for me.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:16 am Reply with quote
I know it's a popular series, but I'm surprised that anyone cared enough about Kuroko's Basketball to try and kill the Manga-ka. That just seems bizarre.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:16 am Reply with quote
samuelp wrote:
It's deadly enough to charge this idiot with attempted murder.
Good enough for me.


It is impossible that 'Hydrogen Sulphide' was sent (unless it was in a cylinder), so the title of the article is incorrect.
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Tanteikingdomkey



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:54 am Reply with quote
ScruffyKiwi wrote:
samuelp wrote:
It's deadly enough to charge this idiot with attempted murder.
Good enough for me.


It is impossible that 'Hydrogen Sulphide' was sent (unless it was in a cylinder), so the title of the article is incorrect.

I just double checked my old organic book, you're right
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zr2008



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:08 am Reply with quote
I remember a test in HS Chemistry. If a certain element was present on filter paper it would turn brown and the whole room would smell like rotten eggs for the rest of the class period.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:10 am Reply with quote
H2S is easy enough to make on your own, it was a notorious Japanese suicide method at one point. There are plenty of recipes on the internet if one wanted to get them.

The article said a liquid was sent so possibly it was a container of reactant agents, though this seems a little far fetched still. Even if this was the case I doubt anyone would hang around after getting a whiff... it stinks like bad eggs.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:20 am Reply with quote
Honestly, I am not a fan of this series. Is it really that good or really that bad, so someone would kill anyone related to the show?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:32 pm Reply with quote
ScruffyKiwi wrote:
samuelp wrote:
It's deadly enough to charge this idiot with attempted murder.
Good enough for me.


It is impossible that 'Hydrogen Sulphide' was sent (unless it was in a cylinder), so the title of the article is incorrect.


If you'll re-read the article, you'll notice that one of the targets, the college, was sent a LIQUID. Hydrogen-sulphide does come in a liquid form. Other places were sent a powder, in one case the powder was identified as possibly being barium.
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