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Mitel Forums => Non-Mitel Chatter => Topic started by: ralph on September 29, 2014, 08:37:33 AM
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Has anyone else discovered that Di-hydrogen Monoxide can severely damage phones?
I've had several customers destroy a few with it.
Ralph
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I find that pretty usual.
While immersion in di-hydrogen monoxide is safe for humans, assuming they hold their breath and no inhale the compound, electronic devices are not generally so lucky.
I had, in the past, witnessed full immersion of electronic devices (a TV with a picture tube, no less) in this compound but it requires an extremely high level of purity that is difficult to achieve given the solvent effects of hi-hydrogen monoxide.
-lee
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What has really surprised me is how much of it, at least where I live, is found in what we drink.
I've heard that at least in one country a MP tried to get it banned. I suspect that a bunch of rich people talked her out of it.
Ralph
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It's a pretty ubiquitous compound, though not altogether safe. I'm pretty sure the death toll from di-hydrogen monoxide is up in the thousands per year, globally.
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There is a nuclear power plant about 5 miles from where I live. They use it in their cooling systems. I've seen clouds of it released in it's gaseous state.
Frightening.
Ralph
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and then they try to tell it's "safe in moderation".... sure...
look what it does to Mitel phones!!!
what more proof do you need.
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Exactly!
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In my experience, it's the dihydrogen monoxide in solution with methyltheobromine that is most common in phone damage. DHMO is nasty stuff. I just got back from vacation where I lost a useful electronic device due to prolonged exposure to dihydrogen monoxide precipitate.
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Indeed, that is true. DHMO is such a common chemical found in office environments that I'm surprised there isn't a material safety sheet (MSDS) on it.
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I had a neighbor that was warned by his doctor about methyltheobromine.
He may no attempt to avoid it.
He died about a year after.
Ralph