Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Klear@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was used in some Auschwitz showers instead of Zyklon B.

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  • neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Alright let’s stop it here.

    Btw there weren’t any gas showers, they were put into huge slaughterhouses that were then filled with Zyklon B.

    Idk where the myth of the shower comes from.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pretty much, yes but the slaughter houses were said to be shower areas and were sometimes even disguised in a manner (signs and fake shower heads).

      I loathe to link to Reddit, but askhistorians /u/commiespaceinvader is s legit source as Holocaust historian:

      old.reddit.com/…/did_the_jews_know_that_the_showe…

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They were told they were being given showers, and there were fake showerheads installed to continue the ruse. There were no pipes connected to the showers, the Nazis dropped canisters down shoots.

      This is something we have to be careful when talking about - because all of those complicated discrepancies between memory and rumor are the muck Holocaust deniers like to throw everywhere. I found an online “uncensored Holocaust encyclopedia” on the first page of DuckDuckGo before I found this link.

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    • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Probably because that’s what some had been told they would be taking before entering the slaughterhouse; but just a guess, on my part.

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    • Eiren@lemmygrad.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      spoiler

      Guards hold them they would be taking showers to get them to go willingly and remove their clothes (easier than doing it after they’re dead).

      Or so I’ve heard, anyway.

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• edwardbear@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bro, have you seen what happens to metals when they are exposed for a prolonged period of time to dihydrogen monoxide?? This is crazy.

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  • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pure DHMO is actually pretty inert. It’s only once you add ions of sodium (a highly reactive metal) and chlorine (a highly toxic gas) that it starts damaging metal.

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It also won’t conduct electricity without something dissolved in it.

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A mixture of HDO and h2o.

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