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Originally Posted by scottmandue View Post
My super uneducated opinion:

I think halon displaces air thus if it went off in a house everyone inside would suffocate.

Edit to add... I see you also consider using carbon dioxide so apparently you are not concerned with the occupants.
No. That is Carbon Dioxide. Halon doesn't suffocate. But it has other problems, related to long term exposure.

In my debates on it, you have something that will kill you NOW vs. somthing that *might* hurt you genetically later vs. being burned alive.
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