05-16-2018, 02:55 AM
Vancouver,
Those plumes of "smoke" coming out of the vents in Leilani and Lani Puna is not just sulfur dioxide - it is sulfuric acid aerosol. Chemgeek factoid: gases are clear and often colorless - the blue-tinged white plume you see coming out of volcanic vents is typically sulfuric acid aerosols that cool and condense water vapor to form an acidic plume. The density of the plumes coming out of those fissures says they are pumping sulfuric acid in a big way. Any houses that are directly exposed to the plume generated by those fissures are going to likely be totaled: the electrical circuits would not be at all reliable - every junction, switch, connection is likely to have significant corrosion; copper piping might survive for a while but its life will be seriously compromised.
No idea what those folks whose homes are near the vents are going to be able to do...
Those plumes of "smoke" coming out of the vents in Leilani and Lani Puna is not just sulfur dioxide - it is sulfuric acid aerosol. Chemgeek factoid: gases are clear and often colorless - the blue-tinged white plume you see coming out of volcanic vents is typically sulfuric acid aerosols that cool and condense water vapor to form an acidic plume. The density of the plumes coming out of those fissures says they are pumping sulfuric acid in a big way. Any houses that are directly exposed to the plume generated by those fissures are going to likely be totaled: the electrical circuits would not be at all reliable - every junction, switch, connection is likely to have significant corrosion; copper piping might survive for a while but its life will be seriously compromised.
No idea what those folks whose homes are near the vents are going to be able to do...