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Posted By The toecap
A serious note on this one. I am currently trying to find out if anybody knows anything about the above substance. Apparently it is a by product of soap. Perhaps it is spelt gallygu. What do people know about this? We have to move a few million tons of the stuff at Widnes
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Posted By Jane Blunt
Try galligu.
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Posted By The toecap
Thanks JB. I have already found stuff by googling. I didn't know it was spelt this way. By the way what would you know about this stuff.
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Posted By The toecap
Thanks peeps. It is a weird substance. I believe it is thixotropic.
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Posted By IOSH Moderator
I don't know anything about it. However, it is clear from looking at the various sites that it is a common name for a mixture of very variable composition. You cannot therefore say anything definitive about it until you have been given an analysis.
Jane
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Posted By Jane Blunt
I don't know anything about it. however, having looked at some websites it is clear that it is a common name given to a mixture of very variable composition.
Until you have been given an analysis of the composition you really cannot begin to make plans.
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Posted By The toecap
My problem is that we will be moving many tonnes of the stuff in about 2 weeks and i still have no coshh data but i have printed off all the web stuff and we'll be having a meeting next week. If i remember i'll let people know whats what
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Toecap
I seriously doubt that you will find a data sheet on this as it was a by-product and as such not sold. Even if it had been you are looking at the days when the chemical industry had absolutely no need of such niceties. Get a series of spot analyses done and work out the composition, from there your environmental engineer can produce the remediation plan and you can organise the PPE and welfare arrangements.
You might however find that there are saleable materials present in marketable quantities, it really depends on what the local situation is.
Bob
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Posted By steven n
Hey there Toecap are you from Widnes? if so me too!! Do you know of any jobs close by as I am working in Burnley at the mo bit too far to travel.
As for gallygoo, we used to use that as a generic name for any kind of sloppy stuff (of which there is plenty in widnes!!)
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Posted By Alex Ryding
Thixotropic - that's a great word Tomato Ketchup being the most famous. And my other favourite is Non-Newtonian solutions is Custard especially shows it's properties when you walk across it - Braniac a few years back?
Oh it must be Friday
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Alex
Be careful to walk on the custard and not on the ketchup as the ketchup is not non-newtonian, it is thixotropic and they are not the same.
Widnes - One of the first homes of the UK chemical industry and the home of its many wastes.
Bob
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Posted By Smiff
I have direct, recent knowledge and experience with Galligu, drop me an email if you'd like to talk more.
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