Poly Vinyl Chloride - PVC

You make a good point carl. I have about $10,000.00 in savings, which I think is enough. My home is paid for and my office is almost paid for. All my cars are paid for. I owe -0- other than on my office. My net worth from other investments is satisfactory to me. The treasure chest does not contain any really valuable items, but they are interesting. It is not meant to be a bucket of gold at the end of the rainbow, more of a distraction at a time of mourning. As far as the ashes being spread on the beach. There is a bit more to that story, both boys are familiar with the area and I imagine I will be blow out to sea by the winds. I would prefer that to being imbalmed only to bloat up and rot away in some dark, damp, metal box, or be baked into ash as they do in New Orleans. I guess it is, to each their own.

There is this test I used a couple of years ago on Lighthouse holders, some no-brand holders, Lighthouse 2x2's and some ziploc bags (not designed to hold food). Here's the thing : I use a glove to hold a pure copper wite (one that is formed by breaking open a standart office clip) and heat it till the colour of copper gets very red. After it, I pierce the plastic stuff I want to test with the hot copper wire and as the plastic melts on the wire, I take it back on fire, see how the plastic on the wire burns. I observed two kinds of fire, one with fiery, bright green (means PVC - STAY AWAY, ziploc bags and no-brand coin acsessories) and two, regular, yellow flame (Lighthouse products). I find it stll useful, if I ever need that PVC testing again. I hope this helps you guys.
I use roasting bags for cooking in ovens (ones that you put whole chickens and turkeys in it) for string aUNC bulk coins.. Any ideas if that's god?.. The oven bags come directly in contact with the food inside a 200, 300 degrees celcius oven.. if they have PVC, all we are eating would be Chloride (I guess) So they're supposed to be safe, aye?

2old says:
"I asked to be cremated and my ashes spread along a Mexican or Caribbean beach."

just carl says:
"Spreading your ashes on the beach too is rather morbid. Imagine all the Mexicans stepping on you."

So what's wrong with a beach? I've stated that some of my ashes go into the sea, as for the rest I don't give a ****. When you're gone you're gone. But the idea of some of my molecules eventually meeting with some from Ghandi and countless others appeals to me.

just carl further says:
"Even though the banks interest rates are low now, in just a few hundred years even a small amount would be worth something."

Yea, let's hope! That is if we (multi-corporations, banks etc) don't s***w it up for future generations.
Now that's what I call being morbid.

Yes and No to all that. PVC is really not the culprit as noted. Even the melting point is 212 degrees. PVC is a PolyVinyl Chloride substance. Poly = Many and Mer = Parts. PVC is a multi elemental covalent organic coupon. Components are Hydrogen, Carbon and Chlorine only. That is C4H6Cl2. As already noted PVC normally can not harm you and yes it is used in piping for water in many homes and for water. It does not decompose easily under most normal instances. And yes, if you burn PVC, it will give off the Chlorine as a gas and that could well damage your nasal passages as well as your eyes.
Again, it is the additives that manufacturers add to PVC to make it more flexible that is the culprit. Note at any hardware store the PVC piping. It is very rigid due to none of those Plasizers added. It is the Phthalates added to PVC that tend to leak out and create all kinds of problems.
However, as long as there are such things as Old Wives tales, people will run around saying how PVC makes the world turn Greennnnnnnnnnn.

It isd a good thing that PVC is safe for water delivery, because if it wasn't, I sure did my self a dirty deed. I just finished plumbing my mogile home with PVC!
Dick

Interesting thread. I was also told that if they smell like a cheap shower curtain you'd get out of the bargain bin from Walmart, then its laced with PVC.

Guilt by association

The HULK probably had a water softener.

Yes, the odor of a new shower curtain is due to PVC which is the primary composition of the cheap shower curtains. Attributing the green slime to PVC is not an "old wives tale", it is fact. Only the PVC flips contain the phthalate plasticizers and that is what causes the problems. The plasticizers leach out of the PVC plastic over time and create a hydrochloric acid sludge, aka the dreaded "green slime". Mylar and other archival-type flips do not have phthalates added and they are perfectly safe for long term storage. This is what a coin looks like after long term storage in a PVC flip-