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  • Death toll in Tianjin chemical blast reaches 112

  • As authority announced evacuation of three kilometer radius from epicenter

  • Firefighters are still battling new blazes at the site of Wednesday's massive chemical explosion at a logistic center in Tianjin

  • Chinese government has ordered the evacuation of the three-kilometer radius

  • around the site of Wednesday's chemical explosion in Tianjin

  • Due to hazardous chemicals in the area

  • The site in Tianjin housed to 700 tons of sodium cyanide

  • as well as sodium carbide and other chemicals

  • When firefighter sprayed water, it reacted with the chemicals causing sodium carbide to explode

  • growing sodium cyanide over a wild area

  • Sodium cyanide is extremely hazardous. In contact with water, it emits hydrogen cyanide

  • which is look good below 25.6 degree Celsius but boils into a gas above that temperature

  • Sodium cyanide and hydrogen cyanide are water-soluble and can be absorbed through the skin

  • Hydrogen cyanide gas is extremely lethal if inhaled

  • Sodium cyanide in hydrogen cyanide cause death by stopping any organs that contact from utilizing oxygen

  • Family members of the 95 people still missing after the blast

  • Including 85 firemen as well as of the over 700 injured

  • have accused the government of lacking transparency in dealing with the disaster

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Death toll in Tianjin chemical blast reaches 112

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