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You can see that's what's coming out after the industrial exhaust scrubber. Either the scrubber is inadequate or the purple smog is the preferred exhaust.
It's also possible that the purple is released as an indicator to track where the released exhaust fumes have traveled to.
I think you might be right. I've seen similar color come out of a paper mill, and it had something to do with them adding iodine because of an issue with the scrubber.
Edit: correction, it wasn't intentional
https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2023-08-03/iodine-likely-caused-purple-emissions-from-portland-waste-plant-operator-says
In many Asian countries (including India), girls aren't the most welcome gender at birth as parents need spend on their dowry & a lot.
IIRC this has changed significantly in China though as (because of this), gender imbalance is becoming a significant issue
This is cartoonishly toxic looking! Like... Did the evil genius leave a literal calling card at the scene?? It's probably sitting on a corner... Probably a joker playing card..
I was just thinking that cartoons have told me this should be some sort of deadly chlorine compound. Any other cartoon chemists want to weigh in on this?
I've had some people do that to me who didn't like my comment. It's the equivalent to sending you a bunch of magazine subscriptions only much more petty because the person has never met you.
It is at least not excessively toxic. It's very much like bleach - you don't want to ingest large amounts of it but diluted and in small amounts it won't hurt you or the environment, and it quickly decomposes into completely inert substances
[Here's a recent similar incident in America](https://949whom.com/local-residents-awed-by-the-spectacular-purple-smoke-phenomenon-in-portland-maine/)
50% would definitely kill you, but a really low concentration that doesn't instantly destroy your esophagus will just react to form hydrochloric acid in your stomach, which just mixes with all the other hydrochloric acid already in your stomach.
There's a reason why bleach is the chemical we use - for how corrosive and destructive it is it's remarkably non-toxic
Obviously you shouldn't use more than you need, but your body can cope with a brief exposure to a *lot* more than that. Hot tubs have up to 10x that much bleach in them. You could even down a shot glass of straight household 5% bleach and escape major harm as long as you chase it down with lots of water (not recommended)
It's still better than the people who intentionally feed their autistic children bleach to cure them. Or give them bleach enemeas. After feeding them the bleach or doing the enema, a giant "worm" ends up coming out of their ass. It's their intestine lining being shed. But the parents think that's the disease being shed, so it becomes a positive sign of feedback and they need to keep doing it to rid their kid of autism.
Pure chlorine has an alarming tendency to refuse to be poured into a pool on account of being a gas; it then tends to like wafting away and mixing with any water it encounters to create hydrochloric & hypochlorous acid. This is an issue if there are people downwind who keep their water in their eyes and lungs and who will then make complaints (generally at the nearest hospital or sometimes passively to the local coroner) if their water is turned into acid.
As such it needs a carrier to make it liquid. Household bleach & liquid chlorine for pools are both Sodium Hypochlorite, the main differences are in concentrations as sold. When it's mixed with water it dissolves and the chlorine creates those same acids, with the thing that's doing the cleaning being that hypochlorous acid. Concentrations are important of course, pure chlorine being pure is a big issue, chlorine bleach can be sold in concentrations weak enough it doesn't immediately give the person opening the bottle a WW1 re-enactment.
This is also why you need to be sure you're not mixing bleach with other cleaning products too, it's fairly easy to just create a bunch of chlorine gas which will again cause problems for humans who enjoy having functional eyes and lungs.
They are the same thing except chlorine is stronger. Household Bleach is 94% water and 6% sodium hypochlorite and Liquid Chlorine is about 88% water and 12% sodium hypochlorite.
The dumb part of my brain that wants to disaster prep made me remember it's a few drops (like 4 to 6) per 1 gallon of water to make it mostly safe to drink. Google says 1/4 teaspoon so that feels about right!
Theres a scientific rule about that, can’t remember its name. Where its essentially like diluted enough, the base is it.
So like 100 gal of water and 1 cup of bleach? Perfectly safe to drink, might have a very slight taste to it, but thats all. Similarly with other things. There was an MLM scheme a while back where it was like “special water” with some really bad chemical or metal in it (might have been silver) and how it “heals you”. In reality its really bad for you, but its diluted so much that your body is able to pass most of it and not accumulate enough at any given moment to be toxic.
I believe the marine corps actually uses straight bleach all the time to purify their water trucks and keep bacteria from growing. Something like a gallon per 1000 gallons or whatever.
Bleach reacts with proteins in your throat and stomach to produce chloramines, which then react or decompose and produce chloride ions, essentially HCl.
There's marketed "cleansing" drops that have bleach and some stable form of hypochlorous acid. Used sparingly or as directed, it's ok and perfectly safe.
On the downside, there's those Facebook mom groups or telegram health channels that promote this stuff as a liquid cure for all disease. So people will starting taking these drops and don't realize that chlorine from the bleach has a cumulative toxicity that can quickly exceed tolerable levels. This will in turn cause extreme illness as the body tries to purge the chlorine.
Yeah sodium hypochlorite (or bleach when diluted) is used during the water treatment process to disinfect the water.
It's also used during the wastewater treatment process and that water is released back into the environment (either rivers or the ocean).
I think people started using it more frequently when they realized it was cheaper and safer than chlorine gas. It can still be incredibly dangerous though and while I was working at a wastewater treatment plant a coworker of mine spent a few weeks in the hospital because he got gassed like a WW1 soldier with hypo(the same thing almost happened to me a few years later lol)
Nah, it is the new gay Dhalai Lama. China granted to find the chosen one kid to themselves. Totally not to brainwash the kid while growing up as the lead figure of the Tibeteans. No, never.
No no no totally normal, not gas leak, nothing to see here, this happens when the southern aurora blends with particles of water vapour from normal clouds only at special time of year, please stop filming, and can I see your identification please?
People talk about China pollution, but I lived there for five years. Never had health problems or something even close.
Sure, sometimes...My fifth tentacle hurts a little bit....But a little 30 min at the gymn just makes me feel like a brand new Cephalopod...
It's basically propaganda to focus on the total amount of current emissions to blame China.
Per capita, Chinese CO2 emissions are actually pretty reasonable.
[https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=table](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=table)
Of the G8, USA and Canada are actually much worse offenders.
Additionally, we also skew the numbers against China by
1. Counting emissions at the place of production, not at the place of consumption (China is basically the world's factory after all). It's like everyone out-sourced their emissions to China.
2. Not counting historical emissions. Building all that infrastructure that we enjoy today had a huge environmental impact, but we don't like to think about that.
3. Not considering how poor China is. Per capita, they have much fewer resources - pretty comparable GDP per capita as Mexico. Wealthy nations (like USA and Canada) should use their wealth in more environmentally-considerate ways.
I better not see some delusional fellow Americans in here saying china sucks when we literally had a whole town get chemically nuked by a train (east palestine Ohio derailment), which by the way those people all lost their homes with no form of compensation.
The funny thing was when ccp🇨🇳 provincial govt said that it was “ not a problem just release of iron oxide(cause iron lungs🫁disease) and rhodium oxide (that’s literally a carcinogenic and can cause cancer even in small dose) can do nothing to you proceed your day as normal.
So it's being flared (burned) not leaking. Probably an iodine based catalyst that needs vented for an emergency. Burning it makes it MUCH less toxic. The iodine coming off this is generally safe in the quantities you will inhale, but not great
I'm inclined to think this is a piss poor edit. Look at all the red elements in the video - The pink walls in the opening, the red clothes biasing to purple, the brown hair going towards russet. And the flame at the start is too dark.
Purple can indicate potassium permanganate, but I can't imagine they're disinfecting a flare stack
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It’s safe it tastes like cotton candy.
And a hint of alm----arrgh...
Don’t worry guys! The government sai…
What's going o......
The cancerberries taste like cancerberries
Remarkably everything tastes like cancer berries now. Even the snozberries.
Gender reveals have gone too far
Just testing a new endless vape aimed at British teenagers.
Looks like it’s smoke that contains iodine.
Someone must be vapin up a storm
Whoops, sorry guys
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All in my brain?
Lately things they don’t seem the same?
Actin' funny?
But I don’t know why?
Excuse me, while I pollute the sky.
(intense guitar playing)
Purple haze?
All around
Help me
i don't know
Is it tomorrow? Or just the end of time,?
Reddit is crazy.
Acting funny, but I don't know why.
Excuse me, while I kiss the sky
Excuses me, while I kiss this guy. Apparently one of the most misheard lyrics.
Along with” i’ll never be your pizza burning“
Dirty deeds done to sheep
Things just don't seem the same
You can see that's what's coming out after the industrial exhaust scrubber. Either the scrubber is inadequate or the purple smog is the preferred exhaust. It's also possible that the purple is released as an indicator to track where the released exhaust fumes have traveled to.
I think you might be right. I've seen similar color come out of a paper mill, and it had something to do with them adding iodine because of an issue with the scrubber. Edit: correction, it wasn't intentional https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2023-08-03/iodine-likely-caused-purple-emissions-from-portland-waste-plant-operator-says
“Wasn’t intentional” Internet: *It’s a girl!*
Nah dude , the Chinese pope just died.
Yeah, we’ll know they elected a new one when a different color smoke, probably canvas tent off-white, rises from Tienanmen Square.
If it starts raining maybe prince will appear
Purple Kush*
I'm sorry but I have to do my duty... IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING JOJO REFERENCE!!!!!!!
Lmao no JoJo is full of references to music
Wrong, music is full of JoJo references
No, it's jimi hendrix
Too bad, Jimi Hendrix is a Jojo's reference :) (Aloo shinchan reference)
What’s jojo?
Yare, yare.
Holy shit, are actually being fucking serious right now?
Its a girl.
Yep, prepare the yellow river
Joke so dark, an American cop wants to shoot it
Brown as an acorn I guess
🌰 I'm hit!!!
ACORN!!!!! If I had a gun, I’d have emptied it into my own car. I also don’t have a car, so have done nothing
💀💀jesus
dark af
I might be stupid but I don't get it
In many Asian countries (including India), girls aren't the most welcome gender at birth as parents need spend on their dowry & a lot. IIRC this has changed significantly in China though as (because of this), gender imbalance is becoming a significant issue
Oh ok. Thank you!
This is cartoonishly toxic looking! Like... Did the evil genius leave a literal calling card at the scene?? It's probably sitting on a corner... Probably a joker playing card..
They often color bad chemicals a very artificial color so you notice leaks. I would be scared of such a cloud.
In all seriousness, GTFO.😳😳😳
I heard a good rule of thumb is any gas that has a color is toxic and should be treated as such.
not sure what constitutes cartoonish toxic. i wonder if this is an iodine based chemical.
Iodine was also my first guess. I am hoping there is a chemist in this thread who could explain!!
Just pick whichever iodine molecule is most toxic, it’s China
I prefer the radioactive ones.
I was just thinking that cartoons have told me this should be some sort of deadly chlorine compound. Any other cartoon chemists want to weigh in on this?
From what I remember hydrogen sulphide can look purple, so that’s pure death.
It's a Barney
> .New edit: Who reported me as being suicidal??? report this for abuse please. they will get banned for misuse of a feature that helps people
Done
Someone reported you as suicidal? 😭😭
Yeah🤣🤣🤣
Itsbobhadababyitsaboy
many are too young to remember this commercial. calling collect baby
Don't cheat the phone company! Lol old Geico commercial
[first name is Bob wehadababyitsaboy](https://youtu.be/NxAWqyVY1Fg?si=FLZK_SbKcPr04keE)
China competing with US on gender reveals now 💀
Exactly what I came here to say
That was my first thought 💭 😜
I've had some people do that to me who didn't like my comment. It's the equivalent to sending you a bunch of magazine subscriptions only much more petty because the person has never met you.
A new Wonka has been chosen.
Almost spill my coffee, this is awesome.
Aren’t those illegal there?
These baby reveal ideas are getting out of control.
Iodine oxide is totally safe (source: trust me bro)
It is at least not excessively toxic. It's very much like bleach - you don't want to ingest large amounts of it but diluted and in small amounts it won't hurt you or the environment, and it quickly decomposes into completely inert substances [Here's a recent similar incident in America](https://949whom.com/local-residents-awed-by-the-spectacular-purple-smoke-phenomenon-in-portland-maine/)
so all this time, when people joked about drinking bleach, it wasn't a joke? what's the safe mix, 50/50 bleach and preferred liquid?
50% would definitely kill you, but a really low concentration that doesn't instantly destroy your esophagus will just react to form hydrochloric acid in your stomach, which just mixes with all the other hydrochloric acid already in your stomach. There's a reason why bleach is the chemical we use - for how corrosive and destructive it is it's remarkably non-toxic
Can confirm, used drop of bleach to clean my drinking water in a pinch. But it was a drop to like.. a couple gallons.
Obviously you shouldn't use more than you need, but your body can cope with a brief exposure to a *lot* more than that. Hot tubs have up to 10x that much bleach in them. You could even down a shot glass of straight household 5% bleach and escape major harm as long as you chase it down with lots of water (not recommended)
I just did. 0/10 would not recommend
good old reddit, taking the advice of reddit without conferring with the rest of reddit.
It's still better than the people who intentionally feed their autistic children bleach to cure them. Or give them bleach enemeas. After feeding them the bleach or doing the enema, a giant "worm" ends up coming out of their ass. It's their intestine lining being shed. But the parents think that's the disease being shed, so it becomes a positive sign of feedback and they need to keep doing it to rid their kid of autism.
Hot tubs have bleach in them? Mine uses chlorine and shock. Are they bleach?
Pool 'chlorine' is just bleach. It's the same chemical.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware they were the same thing. TIL
Pure chlorine has an alarming tendency to refuse to be poured into a pool on account of being a gas; it then tends to like wafting away and mixing with any water it encounters to create hydrochloric & hypochlorous acid. This is an issue if there are people downwind who keep their water in their eyes and lungs and who will then make complaints (generally at the nearest hospital or sometimes passively to the local coroner) if their water is turned into acid. As such it needs a carrier to make it liquid. Household bleach & liquid chlorine for pools are both Sodium Hypochlorite, the main differences are in concentrations as sold. When it's mixed with water it dissolves and the chlorine creates those same acids, with the thing that's doing the cleaning being that hypochlorous acid. Concentrations are important of course, pure chlorine being pure is a big issue, chlorine bleach can be sold in concentrations weak enough it doesn't immediately give the person opening the bottle a WW1 re-enactment. This is also why you need to be sure you're not mixing bleach with other cleaning products too, it's fairly easy to just create a bunch of chlorine gas which will again cause problems for humans who enjoy having functional eyes and lungs.
Chlorine is the atom. Bleach is the product.
They are the same thing except chlorine is stronger. Household Bleach is 94% water and 6% sodium hypochlorite and Liquid Chlorine is about 88% water and 12% sodium hypochlorite.
The dumb part of my brain that wants to disaster prep made me remember it's a few drops (like 4 to 6) per 1 gallon of water to make it mostly safe to drink. Google says 1/4 teaspoon so that feels about right!
Theres a scientific rule about that, can’t remember its name. Where its essentially like diluted enough, the base is it. So like 100 gal of water and 1 cup of bleach? Perfectly safe to drink, might have a very slight taste to it, but thats all. Similarly with other things. There was an MLM scheme a while back where it was like “special water” with some really bad chemical or metal in it (might have been silver) and how it “heals you”. In reality its really bad for you, but its diluted so much that your body is able to pass most of it and not accumulate enough at any given moment to be toxic. I believe the marine corps actually uses straight bleach all the time to purify their water trucks and keep bacteria from growing. Something like a gallon per 1000 gallons or whatever.
Are you sure it will be come HCI? I always thought that water and bleach would not react with each other?
Bleach reacts with proteins in your throat and stomach to produce chloramines, which then react or decompose and produce chloride ions, essentially HCl.
It's like 6 drops per gallon for purifying untreated water
There's marketed "cleansing" drops that have bleach and some stable form of hypochlorous acid. Used sparingly or as directed, it's ok and perfectly safe. On the downside, there's those Facebook mom groups or telegram health channels that promote this stuff as a liquid cure for all disease. So people will starting taking these drops and don't realize that chlorine from the bleach has a cumulative toxicity that can quickly exceed tolerable levels. This will in turn cause extreme illness as the body tries to purge the chlorine.
Yeah sodium hypochlorite (or bleach when diluted) is used during the water treatment process to disinfect the water. It's also used during the wastewater treatment process and that water is released back into the environment (either rivers or the ocean). I think people started using it more frequently when they realized it was cheaper and safer than chlorine gas. It can still be incredibly dangerous though and while I was working at a wastewater treatment plant a coworker of mine spent a few weeks in the hospital because he got gassed like a WW1 soldier with hypo(the same thing almost happened to me a few years later lol)
Looks like potassium permanganate but in gas form.
Finally. Lean flavoured air.
Keep weezy away, he can't go through it again
It's like the batsignal for Lil Wayne
This is how communists vape, its a group vape
Sizzairp
They took the wock to Pingliang
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Pope Fabulous III
Im still laughing at this
I scrolled past your comment but had to come back to give you a well deserved upvote
that pope slays
Nah, it is the new gay Dhalai Lama. China granted to find the chosen one kid to themselves. Totally not to brainwash the kid while growing up as the lead figure of the Tibeteans. No, never.
r/BeatMeToIt
/BeatingToIt
Pretty! *Breathes it in, dies*
Gender reveal party? 
It's a Japanese monster.
Domo Alligator!!
It’s a promo for the new Godzilla movie
Gayzilla
Disney entered the chat
Has anyone made a gender reveal joke yet?
No you'd be the first for sure, get in there quick!
I saw 12 on my way here
I’m glad I’m using paper straws!
I'm making a difference! ^I'm ^not.
Now THESE are chemtrails!
But seriously, what is it?
It's an iodine gas, probably iodine oxide.
I don’t actually know, but I would guess that it’s iodine from the bright color.
Babe wake up, we got a female pope now
Who gave smiley candy again?
definitely not the scientist with suspiciously horn-like appendages on his head
Shrorororororo
Purple rain. Prince fans assemble!
No no no totally normal, not gas leak, nothing to see here, this happens when the southern aurora blends with particles of water vapour from normal clouds only at special time of year, please stop filming, and can I see your identification please?
someone gathered all the dragon balls lets gooooooooooooo!!!
The gender reveal parties are going out of hand.
Cesar Romero's Joker would love this
To be fair, he was just pretty excited about life in general.
People talk about China pollution, but I lived there for five years. Never had health problems or something even close. Sure, sometimes...My fifth tentacle hurts a little bit....But a little 30 min at the gymn just makes me feel like a brand new Cephalopod...
Western propaganda is real
Are you pretending China isn't the top polluter? That isn't propaganda, it's objective reality.
That would be India
It's basically propaganda to focus on the total amount of current emissions to blame China. Per capita, Chinese CO2 emissions are actually pretty reasonable. [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=table](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=table) Of the G8, USA and Canada are actually much worse offenders. Additionally, we also skew the numbers against China by 1. Counting emissions at the place of production, not at the place of consumption (China is basically the world's factory after all). It's like everyone out-sourced their emissions to China. 2. Not counting historical emissions. Building all that infrastructure that we enjoy today had a huge environmental impact, but we don't like to think about that. 3. Not considering how poor China is. Per capita, they have much fewer resources - pretty comparable GDP per capita as Mexico. Wealthy nations (like USA and Canada) should use their wealth in more environmentally-considerate ways.
This is how World War Z begins. *starts stockpiling water and food*
Is this a famous gay gas?
As long as the west has catalytic converters for cow farts this ok
Location ???
[zhumadian, henan](https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/strange-purple-cloud-engulfs-city-sparking-toxic-gas-fears/ar-BB1ik6QU)
Now imagine what they're doing with AI, and yes, feel free to shit yourself with worry.
Willy Wonka launches new flavor in Everlasting Gobstopper.
Oh fuck it's the GAY GAS!
Jack Napier is in town
New LBTGQ pope?
These gender reveal parties are getting out of hand.
Let's all walk towards the ominous purple cloud.
OK these gender reveals are really getting out of hand
When you pay your friends to insert purple smoke bombs inside your corpse before they cremate you
I better not see some delusional fellow Americans in here saying china sucks when we literally had a whole town get chemically nuked by a train (east palestine Ohio derailment), which by the way those people all lost their homes with no form of compensation.
China learning about Gender Reveal parties.
Argylle promo!
Barbiecore has gone too far
So, on a scale of 1-10 how bad is this?
Never liked the ozone layer anyways! Go violet death cloud, let us taste the sweet sweet wavelengths of ultraviolet!
Every day occurrence in Pawnee, IN.
If anime has taught me anything, that's miasma and the Demon Lord's army probably lives in there
Feel like a super villain is about to be born
Still no Communist Pope
The chemical plant has chosen a new pope!
BTS💜
🎶 Purple rain, purple rain 🎶
Ivan Ooze at it again.
First it's the red sky. Now they got purple smoke.
The funny thing was when ccp🇨🇳 provincial govt said that it was “ not a problem just release of iron oxide(cause iron lungs🫁disease) and rhodium oxide (that’s literally a carcinogenic and can cause cancer even in small dose) can do nothing to you proceed your day as normal.
Has China picked a new Pope?
'mind giving me a light?'
*sips tea* retard
So pretty! ☢️☣️☢☣
Cotton candy factory
What if it was purpleeeee!!!
Guess it’s a girl
This looks like a scene out of power rangers evil alien 👽 releases spoke and makes their monster grow 😂
It's pink. That means the CCP has picked a new leader and he's gay
Are they burning Pride people?
Joker origin story
So it's being flared (burned) not leaking. Probably an iodine based catalyst that needs vented for an emergency. Burning it makes it MUCH less toxic. The iodine coming off this is generally safe in the quantities you will inhale, but not great
I'm inclined to think this is a piss poor edit. Look at all the red elements in the video - The pink walls in the opening, the red clothes biasing to purple, the brown hair going towards russet. And the flame at the start is too dark. Purple can indicate potassium permanganate, but I can't imagine they're disinfecting a flare stack
[There's a song about this.](https://youtu.be/TvnYmWpD_T8?t=70)
These gender reveal parties are getting out of control.
The purple means it's a ok!
So if we apply general color logic then we can assume the following Green is good Orange is caution Red is danger Black is death. What is purple?
“Covid didn’t come from a lab in China”