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It only takes 20 minutes to melt your eyes, what is so powerful?
An eight-year-old child had a problem with his right eye, and his parents immediately sent him to the hospital after discovering it, and the whole process lasted about 20 minutes.
What's even more unexpected is that every family has had this thing, and parents must pay attention to it.
Something happens
In the hospital, Coco was lying on the hospital bed in pain, her right eye could not be opened, and the doctor had an unusually serious expression after asking Coco what happened.
immediately looked at Coco's mother, sighed and said, "This thing is dangerous, how can you let the child touch it?" Coco's mother on the side looked at Coco on the hospital bed, choked up and couldn't speak.
She felt a deep remorse for her actions, because her ignorance and carelessness had caused Coco to be like this.
So, what is it that makes Coco's mother say that?
At that time, Coco was eight years old and was in the second grade of primary school, and Coco's mother was very attentive to Coco, sending it to school and picking it up after school.
This kind of life has been accustomed to Coco's mother, coupled with Coco's good performance in school, good academic performance, and praise from teachers from time to time, Coco's mother feels very gratified.
In fact, as long as the child does well in the exam, the parents will be happy and will even give the child a reward.
The same is true of Coco's mother, who is very satisfied with her midterm exam results, and in order to motivate her child to keep up the good work, Coco's mother takes him to the supermarket to buy snacks.
Coco cheered after hearing this, and when she arrived at the supermarket, she was attracted by the dazzling array of snacks on the shelves, and ran back and forth in anticipation.
This made Coco's mother smile wryly, and then asked Coco to pick up a few bags of snacks to pay the bill, but before leaving, Coco pointed to the cabinet with drinks not far away.
Coco's mother didn't speak, but walked straight to the drink cabinet, took out a bottle, and went to the cashier to pay.
After the two arrived home, Coco's mother turned on the TV and played Coco's favorite cartoon and told Coco not to run around.
Coco listened to her mother all the time, and immediately nodded, and Coco's mother saw that there was nothing to do, so she went to the kitchen to make dinner.
Coco, who was sitting on the sofa, watched the cartoon with relish while taking apart the snacks and eating them.
Unconsciously, the snack was quickly eaten, but when Coco wanted to throw it away, she found a white bag inside, and 8-year-old Coco didn't know what it was, and subconsciously thought it was a snack.
For a moment, curiosity arose, so he took the white thing out of the snack bag and sniffed it closely.
But he didn't think it was a snack, and when he opened it, he found that Coco was full of white granular powder, and he had a fun idea in his heart, so he put the granule powder in the drink bottle he had just bought.
But after 15 minutes, there was a "bang" in the living room, followed by a shout.
At the same time, Coco's mother was busy cooking in the kitchen, and when she heard Coco's voice, she immediately stopped what she was doing to check.
I saw drinks and water everywhere on the sofa and table, and Coco was lying on the ground, covering her right eye tightly with her hand, screaming in pain.
When Coco's mother saw this scene, she was immediately frightened and immediately took Coco to the nearest hospital from home.
End Result
During the examination, the doctor found that Coco's eyes could not be opened, and the eyes still leaked fluid from time to time, which made the doctor think that Coco's condition was very serious.
The doctor asked how long Coco's condition had lasted, and Coco's mother calculated that it was about 20 minutes after she arrived at the hospital.
Coco's mother was so anxious that after the doctor's examination, she stepped forward to inquire about her condition, but the doctor said that Coco's right eye was corroded by an alkaline substance, and the eyeball was gradually melting.
Hearing this, Coco's mother was startled and continued to ask, "Doctor...... Can the eye be cured?"
The doctor looked anxious and shook his head to say that Coco's eyes were no longer treatable and would cause lifelong blindness.
Later, the doctor asked Coco's mother how Coco's right eye was damaged, but Coco's mother did not know.
Coco, on the other hand, said that she had added the powder from a white bag to the bottle, and then it exploded. Then something came into the eye, and at first the right eye was a little hot, but then it hurt a lot.
After listening to Cocoa's explanation, the doctor already knew in his heart that the white substance that Cocoa said was "food desiccant".
In fact, there are countless examples of food desiccants being caused, such as the explosion of a junior high school boy in 2011 who lost sight in his right eye after putting desiccant in a thermos cup.
In 2015, a boy from Jiangxi was seriously injured because desiccant got into his eyes.
So, are desiccants really that powerful?
Composition of the desiccant
The so-called "desiccant" refers to a substance that can remove water from the substance, and to put it bluntly, it is an adsorbent.
The same is true for food desiccants, there are three main types of food desiccants on the market today, namely quicklime, silica gel and montmorillonite.
However, compared with silica gel and montmorillonite, quicklime desiccant is widely distributed, such as snacks, tea, etc.
It can be said that the food desiccant made by the merchant is used to absorb the moisture in the food, so as to achieve a vacuum state and further extend the life of the food.
Of course, food desiccants are only used to absorb moisture, and the smell is preserved.
However, it should be noted that food desiccants still have certain hazards, such as quicklime.
The food desiccant in the cocoa incident is likely to be quicklime desiccant.
We all know that quicklime in quicklime desiccant accounts for the main component, quicklime is also known as "calcium oxide", as an alkaline oxide, it is easy to react with water.
Well, there may be many parents who don't know that calcium oxide and water produce substances, and here it needs to be explained that the substances they produce are calcium hydroxide, a strong alkaline substance, which is corrosive.
Once the quicklime desiccant is put into a bottle with water, it reacts sufficiently within a certain time to produce calcium hydroxide, and a large amount of heat is generated.
In addition, the bottle itself is narrow and sealed, so that the pressure ratio of the inside and outside is different, resulting in the bottle cap being unable to withstand the pressure inside, resulting in an explosion.
Of course, this is still a reaction with water, and if quicklime is put in the drink, it will intensify the reaction between them, because the beverage is already expansive.
This makes one wonder, do all food desiccants explode, and how powerful are they?
Experimental process
The answer to this question has already been given and experiments have been conducted.
In one program, experimenters used more than a dozen food desiccants to test whether they would explode.
First of all, the experimenters added the same amount of water to these food desiccants in the same proportion, and waited for half an hour to find that there was no obvious change in these food desiccants.
For example, silica gel desiccant and quicklime desiccant, one is sound, the other is completely unchanged.
This made the experimenters think that not all desiccant would explode, but because the quicklime did not react or explode, the experimenters did another experiment.
The experimenter put an increased amount of quicklime desiccant into the bottle, then added water, and after a period of time found that the bottle exploded, and finally concluded that if the amount was too large, the probability of explosion would increase.
So, how powerful is the quicklime desiccant explosion?
The fire brigade has also conducted similar experiments to test the power of explosions.
He put two packets of quicklime desiccant into the bottle, added water and shook it, and measured the temperature successively, and found that the temperature reached 93 degrees, and after three minutes, the bottle exploded.
Later, the firefighters added several packets of quicklime desiccant, and as a result, the temperature rose sharply, and an explosion occurred at about 60 degrees, and after the experiment, the firefighters found that the bottle had been deformed.
It can be seen from here that not all food desiccants can be explosive and harmful, but desiccants like quicklime are dangerous in themselves, and with a certain amount, the explosion should be so.
Therefore, parents should always understand the hazards and ingredients of food desiccant to avoid children from touching and causing damage.
Author's point of view
Many people think that food desiccant is not harmful and often do not pay attention to it, but it is because it is ordinary that people begin to be careless.
Therefore, in life, small items like food desiccant should be understood in time, after all, "ignorance" is also a "sin".
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Reference: Pearl River Times, Alert!8-year-old boy permanently blind, the "culprit" is it, your family also has it, September 2018
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