I did
not intend to cause alarm. I was basically not serious, but I did
err.
I am not afraid of potassium or chlorides and
know that they are essential to life, as is cobalt, chromium, and
other elements which in excess can cause harm. I am BTW also against the
lead-free electronics hysteria. I know that people get unnecessarily concerned
about the effects of chemicals when they read reports. I trust that TechNet
members are not as alarmist as the general population.
I
truthfully admit the mistake I made was that I thought potassium cyanide was
used for lethal injection not KCl, and thought the news story got it wrong.
Having had the mechanism pointed out to me, understand what is going on with
potassium and the heart. Unfortunately, I know more than I wish to about
heart function, as my son died from heart failure while awaiting a heart
transplant.
Hi Tim,
Don't know if you are serious or not...
Greg's comments are on
target in that it is normally injected.
It should be noted that if you
did not have any potassium chloride in your body you would also likely be
dead. It is a vital electrolyte
Interesting also to note that
Ingesting a half kilo of sodium chloride was a favored method of suicide in
China in centuries past.
Seriously, we need to be careful how we use
and disperse such reports. Some people actually take them to heart and believe
them and cause the industry significant grief.
Lead-free is a good
case in point, where people have equated lead in electronic solder with lead
in paint and gasoline. There is NO evidence that lead in solder is a risk to
human health but well meaning but poorly informed people have been running
around asserting the dangers lead in solder without any direct scientific
evidence of any harm to show the world.
If some folks read the article
wrong, the next stop might be... Potassium Free electronics
(Actually I think most customers will welcome that one for functional
reasons but if the marketing folks get a hold of it... ;-)
Kind regards,
Joe
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