Do you want that to happen to your humidor?

Then you better never use kitty litter or your humidor will explode in a radioactive ball of fire and gas.

http://gizmodo.com/how-a-simple-typo-may-have-turned-a-drum-of-radioactive-1662683094 

Well, sure that settles everything.

Nothing gets past you, does it?

Yeah, Victor.....Science and stuff

That's why I don't use it.

So much for the argument that "silica is silica".

Ummm. . . Guess shows what you know about chemistry.

Organic cat litter, would not be the silica kind(not all cat litter is the same chemical stuff as the beads. . . )

Silica dioxide is inorganic material, and therefore not "organic kitty litter".

And all organic material releases heat as it decomposes, its just a question of how much heat and what its dispersed against. . .

Ohhhh, that's gotta burn!

Since the article was being quoted, I figured I would too. . Not only did they not use Silica Gel, they used the wrong organic Kitty litter. . .

Maybe they should have been buying inorganic kitty litter all along, as it wouldn't suffer from the decomp reactions the organics do. . . (hey look another use for this stuff. Store your cigars and prevent nuclear melt downs. . . )

Really I quite enjoy the crusade against Kitty litter around here. There are beads designed specifically for humidors and make sense as the choice material. It doesn't mean that anyone who chooses to use Silica Gel from the pet store is an idiot, because of what is printed on the container. It means they have another viable solution, which you don't choose to use or promote. . .

Do we really have to resort to half-information and mis-informed propaganda to make a point?

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Not sure I was looking to Burn anybody, but rather help inform about chemistry in our daily lives. . .

WOW that some brilliant posting if I ever saw it!

I applaude you!

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seems pretty clear to me that if they'd just used heartfelt beads at the New Mexico Waste Isolation Pilot Plant they wouldn't have had this radioactive "burst".

I wonder if you any of them have seen the kitty litter threads. Someone should probably forward them some links.