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Burning the Chemicals Creates Combustion Products

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Vinyl chloride is very explosive. There was a lot of concern that if these chemicals heated up and there was an unintentional release, then we would have a massive bomb with huge amounts of shrapnel. So burning the chemicals definitely creates dangerous byproducts. Those are things you didn't mean to make, but they're actually more toxic to you than the original piece of bread was.

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