This thread reminds of the Penn and Teller episode when they went around a massive environmental protest in DC convincing 100s of people to sign a petition banning "di-hydrogen oxide."
Lets got through this big list of scary sounding chemicals and look at their common uses...shall we:
Hydrochloric Acid-multiple uses but the main component in Gastric acid....what you body creates to digest food. Scary stuff there.
Glutaraldehyde - used to disinfect medical and dental equipment as well as treat warts! Heebee jeebies on that one.
Quaternary Ammonium Chloride - main component in some anitbacterial soaps.
Tetrakis Hydroxymethyl-Phosphonium Sulfate - flame retardent commonly used on textiles and cotton products.
Ammonium Persulfate - etching liquid, make microchips with it
Sodium Chloride - this might the scariest one of all......salt.
Magnesium Peroxide-proven bioremediation agent (helps remove toxins), used to treat farm soil so ends up in food
Magnesium Oxide - component of TUMS (chronic heartburn...love me some Mg Peroxide!)
Calcium Chloride - lots of good stuff, deicing, food preservative, fish tank additive, treats wastewater to allow drainage into the environment
Choline Chloride - common GNC supplement....this one terrifies me!
Tetramethyl ammonium chloride-not whole lot on this one but the
MSDS indicates there not much health concern over it
Sodium Chloride -well, this one is sooooo scary they used it twice! Salt again.
Isopropanol - from medical to fuel additive (drying agent)
Methanol - this one is actually a little toxic but would require 4 fl. oz (= two shots) of pure methanol to have a lethal does.
Formic Acid - another antibacterial agent, used in feed and fertilzer...prevents e.coli
Acetaldehyde - found in Marijuana smoke! Know some of you will love that!
Petroleum Distillate - this one is kind of sneaky as its the general term for several other chems on this list.
Hydrotreated Light Petroleum Distillate- same as above
Potassium Metaborate - commonly found in welding flux
Triethanolamine Zirconate - used in printing ink
Sodium Tetraborate - laundry soap
Boric Acid - used for emergency first aid eyewash
Zirconium Complex - this could mean host of different substances but zirconium is used to make face diamonds.
Borate Salts - Borax laundry soap again!
Ethylene Glycol - antifreeze
Methanol - I'm wondering if these repeats occur to make this big scary list longer.
Polyacrylamide - flocculate, used in wastewater treatment before putting back into the environment
Petroleum Distillate - this ones so nice they listed it twice!
Hydrotreated Light Petroleum Distillate- dar
Methanol- dar
Ethylene Glycol-dar
Guar Gum - damn...they use this for a lot including our food.
Petroleum Distillate- dar
Hydrotreated Light Petroleum Distillate-dar
Methanol dar
Polysaccharide Blend - one for you ladies! Used in hair removal wax!
Ethylene Glycol-dar
Citric Acid - HELLO!!! Orange juice anyone!
Acetic Acid - used in pickles...yumm
Thioglycolic Acid - used in perms.
Sodium Erythorbate - an anitoxidant found in food
Lauryl Sulfate - SHAMPOO
Isopropanol - air freshener
Ethylene Glycol - dar
Sodium Hydroxide - used to remove peal on cocoa beans....so WILLY WONKA is involved!
Potassium Hydroxide - soft hand soap
Acetic Acid - dar
Sodium Carbonate - for you starving college kids....RAMEN NOODLES!
Potassium Carbonate - used in WINE
Copolymer of Acrylamide and Sodium Acrylate - FAKE SNOW!! In a nutshell...plastic
Sodium Polycarboxylate - dishwasher soap
Phosphonic Acid Salt - used in medicine to treat bone disorders
Lauryl Sulfate - dar
Ethanol - Bourbon anyone...primary ingredient in booze
Naphthalene - mothballs
Methanol - dar
Isopropyl Alcohol - dar
Butoxyethanol - another ingredient commonly used in soap.