Chemical blast in Tianjin halts work at auto and farm equipment plants

Tuesday, August 18th 2015 - 10:25 UTC

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Toyota and John Deere have said they will halt work at plants near China's port of Tianjin where huge explosions last week killed more than 100 people. Toyota's production lines will be closed until the end of Wednesday while John Deere suspended work indefinitely. Read full article

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Captain Poppy
Did anyone get a chance to see the debris when it got wet? It started sizzling and smoldering. Such a highly regulated country.

South America........coming to a neighborhood near you.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 1 Captain Poppy

Apparently it has been announced by the government that there were 'hundreds of tonnes' of cyanide in the warehouses.

Which salt of cyanide was not stated.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Captain Poppy
Wow....I just read about thunderstorms coming. They are calling it a mystery. Chinese people are worth little to their leaders.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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yankeeboy
As with everything in that terrible place this is much worse than they're letting on.
Aug 20th, 2015 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
As I suspected would happen the massive amount of cyanide was blasted into the atmosphere.

I hope the sun wasn't shining, even semi-poisonous salts of cyanide can be transformed into more concentrated forms.

Clearly, the Chin will grasp the opportunity this presents and set up the worlds' largest poison mask production facility!
Aug 20th, 2015 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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