X-Message-Number: 3921
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 21:10:06 -0500
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <>
Subject: Re: SCI.CRYONICS Uploading

>> All of the chlorine is already in the form of chloride ions.

> No its not. There are lots of different chlorine compounds in a
> cell, I haven't counted them but it must be in the thousands.

This may be literally true, but they exist only in trace amounts.
Various antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides, solvents, refrigerants,
substances produced by the chlorination of tapwater containing suspended
organics, breakdown products of plastics, chloramine produced by
inadvertantly mixing bleach with ammonia, etc.

> A chlorine atom in almost any molecule would love to grab hold of a
> homeless electron and become a chlorine ion.

No.  This is only true of Cl2 molecules or of isolated neutral chlorine
atoms, neither of which should exist at all in your body.  The former
was used a poison gas during World War I.  The latter is much too
unstable to exist at all under reasonable temperatures and pressures.

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