EVIE
Breathing Methyl Acetylene can irritate the lungs, causing coughing or shortness of breath. Higher exposures can cause a build-up of fluid in the lungs, a medical emergency, with severe shortness of breath.
But Acetylene plus gas was even more dangerous. Oxygen and acetylene together produce a flame temperature of 3150 °C, making it the hottest of all the fuel gases and the only fuel gas that can weld steel.
And right now, those two chemicals have just been dispersed in the air by the explosion of the hail cannon!
Evie immediately covered her mouth, knowing that she could inhale the poisonous gas.
She was already having a difficult time breathing. It felt like all the oxygen in her lungs was being sucked by the air.
Everything was spinning and her throat felt like she was going to vomit.
Still, she tried to stand up and see what she could do. But to her horror, her legs were oozing with blood coming from an open wound.