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How to neutralize chemical weapons
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this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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All an oven mitt is doing to these is melting them into your flesh. These things get to more than 1200° F. Hotter than any glove you can buy is rated for sustained contact with. Welding gloves are just enough protection to guarantee you never use your hands again, but they probably won’t have to be surgically removed.
Standard tear gas canisters cannot be extinguished with water either. Pouring water into an enclosed space with a small opening is only going to create superheated steam jetting from the top.
This post is purpose built to get people horrifically injured.
I'm sorry, but your understanding of physics is incorrect. Water has a very high heat capacity. A tear gas canister is made of thin metal. It won't flash more than a few drops of that bottle of water to steam before cooling down.
Also, if it did, traffic cones aren't nailed down, are they? It would explode out the sides.
Thirdly, I have personally seen people with gloves grab tear gas canisters and throw em back. They don't keep hold of them for very long, and their gloves aren't damaged.
Congrats, this is the dumbest shit I've read in a fair bit.
Think about your oven, turned up to 500 degrees. You put a cast iron pan on one rack, and a 10x10-inch sheet of aluminum foil on another rack. While they heat up, fill two sinks halfway with water. Pull the pan out of the oven and throw it in a sink. Pull the sheet of aluminum foil out and throw it in the other sink. Which produces more steam?
The pan and foil were both the same temperature, 500 degrees, but one had more heat capacity than the other.
I mean, hell, I've pulled aluminum foil out of an oven and it's safe to handle without protection in seconds of coming out
Welding gloves should work fine, tho, esp. given the time period is rather short
It’s gotta be really short, but yeah. Welding gloves are excellent at dealing with flash heat (which makes sense because they’re used to protect the user from extremely hot but small objects with low specific heat).