Re: Drowning Duck Experiment?

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From: Robin Fairbairns
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:31

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In article <BxH3wG.Dqw@javelin.sim.es.com>, rspeirs@javelin.sim.es.com (Ron Speirs) writes:
|>[...]
|>
|> I heard this story MANY years ago from my High School chemistry teacher.
|> He said that they used
|>           Dioctyl Sodium Sulfosuccinate
|> which according to a recent chemical catalog is now more "properly" called:
|>           Bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate Sodium Salt
|>           C20 H37 Na O7 S
|> I believe that this is the active ingredient in a medicine called "Colace",
|> which is a stool softener.  Ask a pharmacist.

If this is indeed true, one should see drowning ducks at any sewage
settling plant.  Any decent-sized metropolis must perforce include
quite a lot of people with constipation at any one time.

What a way to go...
--
Robin (come back John Drummond) Fairbairns       rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
"They had twelve years to lay in wait for us" - Bush supporter on Nov 4

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