Timeline for Does a vinegar bandana help against tear gas?
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| Dec 17, 2015 at 17:44 | history | edited | Sklivvz |
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| Jan 16, 2012 at 19:06 | comment | added | user951 | Cleanup involves base and sulfhydryls. That's a lot nastier than vinegar, so vinegar would be used, if it worked: "CS contamination can be removed by washing with an alkaline solution of water and 5% sodium bisulfite." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS_gas | |
| Dec 21, 2011 at 18:48 | comment | added | user unknown | @jdm: Grenades where used at the airport Frankfurt (Startbahn West) and at Wackersdorf, where a nuclear reprocessing plant was planned, it wan't much of an urban area. They threw them from helicopters, for example. | |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 17:19 | history | edited | user5341 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2011 at 23:44 | comment | added | user5299 | It helps, so does water. The idea is that it reacts on your face/in the bandana rather than in your throat and lungs. It doesn't prevent it all from getting through, and it burns your face, but I'd take it over a lung full of gas any day. | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 14:29 | comment | added | Rincewind42 | Having been in CS gas while training for the army I can say this wouldn't work. CS gas will sting painfully any exposed flesh that it damp. It will sting you mouth, nose and throat but also you eyes, you armpits, your crotch, any scratches on your hands. Even if the vinegar works, you'd have to bath in it and wear the bandanna over your eyes. | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 9:46 | answer | added | Tom77 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 6:06 | comment | added | jwenting | the cloth and moisture alone would probably block at least some of the aerosol (not a gas, this is an aerosol) that is the "tear gas". So it would be somewhat effective of preventing inhalation, but of course have no effect whatsoever on the irritant effect on your exposed skin and eyes. And as an aside, carrying a wet cloth with you for potentially hours guarantees that the cloth will not stay wet :) | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 0:36 | comment | added | jdm | @user unknown, good question. I think in Germany they mostly use pepper/capsicum spray (fired by hand from spray bottles/guns), or CS/CN/pepper, depending on the state, mixed into the water in water cannons. Classic gas grenades are rare, probably because it is hard to control where it goes in an urban setting. I have no idea what's used in the US, I assume some sort of Mace (containing CN).... | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 0:23 | history | edited | jdm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 27, 2011 at 23:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSkeptic/status/129608309547335680 | ||
| Oct 27, 2011 at 21:06 | comment | added | horatio | "incapacitated" is probably the less funny but more appropriate word choice. "decapacitation" appears to be a Biology term involving sperm. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 18:47 | comment | added | pfyon | I know in WWI, soldiers in trenches would urinate on their handkerchiefs when there was a chlorine or mustard gas attack. The water reacted with the chloride ions to produce HCl (hydrochloric acid), which was pretty much what happened in the lungs of the target. I leave this as a comment because I don't know what chemicals are used in tear gas and don't know if there's a similar reaction. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 16:24 | history | edited | Sklivvz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 27, 2011 at 15:48 | comment | added | user unknown | What kind of tear gas do they use? In West-Germany in the 80ies, there was the older CN-Gas, and a more aggressive CS-Gas in use. The myth of vinegar was known then, and known to be a myth, but I don't have any source - we didn't use the Internet over then. :) | |
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| Oct 27, 2011 at 15:07 | history | asked | jdm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |