Just ask Master Wang-Ka http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=242716&page=2 Post 31
In case you’re saying that because you’re worried of toxicity, I have seen many posters on this board say that it’s all but harmless. The Wikipedia article lists off ways it can hurt people by the bucketful but doesn’t state how strong the link is to any of them.
I suspect the correct answer is that drinking tainted water day in and day out would be bad, but a one time spill on your floor that was quickly mopped up would pose no practical risk.
Makes sense, but it’s not true. First of all, EVERY chemical I’ve bought from them is a well-characterized item of commerce, and is accompanied by a complete MSDS. Second, I can order 25g of sulfuric acid 98% from Sigma/Aldrich and it will show up packaged like radioactive nitroglycerin. I can order 5 pounds from Spectrum, Fisher, VWR, etc., and it’ll show up in a glass bottle in a cardboard box filled with styrofoam – no sorbents, no neutralizers, no plastic bags, and no double layers. And I’ve seen Aldrich do that kind of overpackaging for all manner of chemicals, some of which have no known hazards except for smelling bad.
True enough, but I wanted to explore/exploit additional options against species of nature spirits that don’t have such a vulnerability, or have gained some measure of immunity against it.
Preliminary design concept at this point involves a cold iron-jacketed trinitite cored (or was it the other way around? I’ll have to find my notes…) bullet, with the aforementioned coating of DDT, as a universal Anti-Uppity Sprite round.
DrDeth—I must say, I do appreciate the nod to Agent Orange! Though I had it in mind for large-scale Hippie Area-Denial, specifically (as it was a “Rainbow Herbicide,” it seems doubly appropriate).