• Fondots@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    All of those other letters around “phosphine” in “Trimethylbenzoyl Diphenylphosphine Oxide” are important too. You can’t really just pull out one part of a chemical name like that and pretend like that tells you much about the properties of that substance.

    Like how “sodium chloride” is neither a poisonous gas like chlorine, nor a highly reactive metal like sodium, but is in fact ordinary table salt.

    Or methane, methamphetamine, methadone, methanol, methyl anthranilate, etc… all very different chemicals that happen to have a methyl group as part of their structure (3 hydrogen atoms bonded to one carbon atom)

    I’m not saying that TPO is safe, it’s just that the fact that “phosphine” appears in the chemical name doesn’t mean all that much in the way that you’re trying to imply.

    For anyone who’s into this sort of thing, NileRed on YouTube does a lot of stuff where he’ll, for example, show how part of the structure of a chemical found in, for example, rubber gloves, is also found in a totally different chemical, like the one that makes chili peppers spicy, then takes a bunch of rubber gloves, extracts that chemical from them, does some chemistry stuff to turn it into the spicy chemical and makes hot sauce with it.