Talk:Lake Nyos disaster

Notability
"Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article."... seriously? -Rolypolyman (talk) 17:14, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
 * What are you quoting from? I see nothing like that on this article. — Gorthian (talk) 19:48, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

There is a great difference between "gases that included hydrogen and sulfur" and the gas Hydrogen Sulfide
The section "Effects on survivors" states "...many of the victims had been poisoned by a mixture of gases that included hydrogen and sulfur." Sulfur is not a gas, and hydrogen would have gone straight up, not down the valley. What was obviously meant by the chemistry-challenged writer was the gas Hydrogen Sulfide. I will look deeper into this before editing the article. 17:25, 9 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Have you come up with anything since last year? I found the following quite strange, testimony of a survivor. " I was surprised to see that my trousers were red, had some stains like honey. I saw some ... starchy mess on my body. My arms had some wounds ... I didn't really know how I got these wounds"

Would hydrogen sulfide stain trousers leave a starchy mess on the body? I googled this as I am watching an episode about the Lake Nyos diaster on the Science Channel. I recall a CT at the time, that this was an experiment of a neutron bomb, and to back up the CT, it was claimed that Cameroon receivd an unusual multimillion dollar gift from the U.S. The effects on people experienced do not concur with the explanation given on the Sci Channel. Then again who can take what we see on TV serious?Oldperson (talk) 21:24, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

= BBC are wrong ! = I just came here as a result of the same quote. The BBC article does indeed say "A doctor there said they had been poisoned by a mixture of gases including hydrogen and sulphur." (Note the English, not US, spelling). That struck me as very unlikely - not least because sulphur isn't a gas at normal temperatures. Hydrogen Sulphide, on the other hand, is a common and highly poisonous component in volcanic gasses and as a decomposition product, which would make it a likely suspect. Number774 (talk) 20:56, 11 November 2022 (UTC)