Letupan Besar di China

50 rentung, 700 cedera

Sekurang-kurangnya 50 orang terkorban dan lebih 700 orang lagi cedera dalam dua letupan kuat di sebuah kawasan perindustrian di daerah Binhai, bandar Pelabuhan Tianjin, di timur laut China, lewat semalam.

China Central Television (CCTV) melaporkan, insiden dipercayai berlaku ketika penghantaran bahan letupan ke kawasan itu pada kira-kira pukul 11.30 malam waktu tempatan, dengan letupan pertama turut kedengaran beberapa kilometer dari tempat kejadian diikuti dengan letupan kedua yang lebih kuat 30 saat kemudian. - Utusan

Masya allah. Seram sungguh kejadian kat China ni. Macam kena bom. Apa yang menyebabkan gudang ni meletup?

It is believed the warehouse contained at least 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide, a toxic chemical that can kill rapidly if inhaled, as well as other highly flammable and dangerous materials. - Daily Mail

Tengok tu. Gila bahaya!! Jika kita terhidu Sodium Cyanide, kita boleh mati secara langsung!

Apakah itu Sodium Cyanide?

Sodium cyanide releases hydrogen cyanide gas, a highly toxic chemical asphyxiant that interferes with the body's ability to use oxygen. Exposure to sodium cyanide can be rapidly fatal. It has whole-body (systemic) effects, particularly affecting those organ systems most sensitive to low oxygen levels: the central nervous system (brain), the cardiovascular system (heart and blood vessels), and the pulmonary system (lungs). Sodium cyanide is used commercially for fumigation, electroplating, extracting gold and silver from ores, and chemical manufacturing. Hydrogen cyanide gas released by sodium cyanide has a distinctive bitter almond odor (others describe a musty "old sneakers smell"), but a large proportion of people cannot detect it; the odor does not provide adequate warning of hazardous concentrations. Sodium cyanide is odorless when dry. Sodium cyanide is shipped as pellets or briquettes. It absorbs water from air (is hygroscopic or deliquescent)

Bahaya Sodium Cyanide

Kaedah penyebaran/pencemaran

Air: Sodium sianida boleh digunakan untuk mencemarkan air.

Makanan: Sodium sianida boleh digunakan untuk mencemarkan makanan.

Pertanian: Jika natrium sianida dibebaskan sebagai titisan halus, semburan cecair (aerosol), atau zarah halus, ia mempunyai potensi untuk mencemarkan produk pertanian.

Kalau kita terkena secara langsung dengan bahan kimia ni, 99% kematian menanti kita. Tapi kenapa ada bahan kimia tu Abe We tak pasti pula. Abe We pun bukan ahli kimia.

Media in China have reported that one of the warehouses that was destroyed may have stored a number of toxic chemicals, including sodium cyanide and toluene diisocyanate, said to be "extremely toxic" even after short-term exposure to humans.

China's official state news agency, Xinhua, said on Thursday that drains from Tianjin to the Bohai sea - a gulf in the Yellow Sea - had been closed "to stem chemical leak". - BBC