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Name: Karen Zeno
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What other chemicals can we used that aren't that poisonous as sodium acid in a car airbag that will do the same reaction?


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I know very little about automotive air bags, but I do know that two compounds commonly used as gas-generating agents are sodium azide (not acid) and tetrazole. I don't know anythning about their toxicities.

Richard E. Barrans Jr., Ph.D.
Assistant Director
PG Research Foundation, Darien, Illinois


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