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From: ins_ajpo@jhunix.UUCP (Joseph Peter Ogulin)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Hydrogen Oxide Hazards
Message-ID: <1479@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 00:38:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 00:38:13 1985
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> >	In a related story, the Environmental Protection Agency has initiated
> >a billion-dollar research project studying the toxic effects of hydrogen oxide
> >(H2O), a chemical which is believed to be contaminating some of our lakes,
> >rivers, and streams.  Preliminary results indicate that it is most toxic when
> >ingested into the lungs.
> 
> 
> Also, the EPA is investigating the possibility of outlawing cars that
> spew this poison out into the air as a by-product of gasoline
> combustion. But by far the biggest polluters are the coin-operated
> laundries, which continually pollute the air with H2O vapour. This
> causes a phenomenon known as "wet rain," which has been know to kill
> crops when it falls in large quantities.
> 
     Wouldn't "dry rain" be a problem?

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