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| number    = 2638
 
| date      = June 27, 2022
 
| title    = Extended NFPA Hazard Diamond
 
| image    = extended_nfpa_hazard_diamond.png
 
| titletext = With most labs, the hushed horror stories are about something like dimethylmercury or prions, but occasionally you'll get a weird lab where it's about the soda machine or the drop ceiling.
 
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==Explanation==
 
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This comic depicts an extension of [[wikipedia:NFPA 704|NFPA 704]], bringing it from 2x2 to 3x3 by adding 5 variously useful and humorous squares.
 
 
 
 
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
|+ Squares and explanations
 
|-
 
! Square !! Color !! Comic text !! Explanation
 
|-
 
| Top || Red || Flammability -> 0 || [[http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/nfpa.html Real NFPA 704 square]]. Denotes flammability.
 
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| Top Left || Blue || Health Hazard -> 4 || Real NFPA 704 square. Denotes the danger that the substance poses to living beings in ways other than flammability and reactivity.
 
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| Top Right || Yellow || Instability/Reactivity -> 2 || Real NFPA 704 square. Denotes how easily the substance reacts with other substances.
 
|-
 
| Center || White || (Special Hazard) || Real NFPA 704 square. Contains a symbol with additional notes on the substance. After this point, all squares are made up by Randall.
 
|-
 
| Center Left || Green || Number of digits in the street value ($/gram) -> 2 || Describes the order of magnitude of the price of one gram of the substance when sold illegally and informally. Most common illicit drugs would score 2 in this square.
 
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| Center Right || Dark Purple || How much of a hassle it is to dispose of -> 4 || Describes in a subjective (or maybe objective?) way how difficult the substance is to dispose of. While many things can be thrown in the trash with no additional procedures{{Citation Needed}}, biohazards that may carry diseases are often disposed of in special containers, and nuclear materials are notoriously difficult to safely dispose of. This square would be useful in limited contexts.
 
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| Bottom Left || Lilac || Number of federal agencies who want to know if you have any -> 3 || In many countries, including Randall's home country, the USA, the government has agencies dedicated to controlling or limiting the use of regulated substances, due to their use as drugs or as chemical weapons. While any given substance would probably be of one agency's interest, something that is both an environmental hazard and a chemical weapon component could interest, for example, both the Chemical Safety Board and the FBI Counterterrorism Division. This could also allude to the CIA's experiments with LSD, which is illegal to possess as a US civilian.
 
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| Bottom Right || Orange || How many times you have to scrub your hands after touching it before they stop smelling weird -> 1 || While the real NFPA 704 chart describes properties ranging from unsafe to potentially deadly, this square describes a minor but very real inconvenience. Some things are harder to wash off your hands than others, and, given that most people don't often work with dangerous substances {{Citation Needed}}, this would be a more common, but less relevant, concern for many people.
 
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| Bottom || Black || Number of times it's caused one of those terrifying lab accidents that chemists tell scary stories about late at night -> 2 || The result of this square, although dependent on how much the substance is researched in labs, can show how scared someone should be in handling the substance in question, especially if the number is more than one. Though the description is vague, this number could show how easy it is to cause ''some'' kind of reaction of a terrifying magnitude with this substance.
 
|}
 
 
 
==Transcript==
 
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Know your extended NFPA hazard diamond:
 
 
 
Flammability: 0 (top)
 
 
 
Health hazard: 4 (top-left)
 
 
 
Instability/reactivity: 2 (top-right)
 
 
 
Number of digits in the street value ($/gram): 2 (left)
 
 
 
(Special hazard) (center)
 
 
 
How much of a hassle it is to dispose of: 4 (right)
 
 
 
Number of federal agencies who want to know if you have any: 3 (bottom-left)
 
 
 
How many times you have to scrub your hands after touching it before they stop smelling weird: 1 (bottom-right)
 
 
 
Number of times it's caused one of those terrifying lab accidents that chemists tell scary stories about late at night: 2 (bottom)
 
 
 
{{comic discussion}}
 

Revision as of 03:30, 28 June 2022

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