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Naphthalene is present in Camphor ball which should be avoided by patients with G6PD. Naphthalene can act as a oxidant which may oxidize the Hemoglobin to methemoglobin which lose the ability of carrying oxygen.

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[edit] Napthalene or Naphthalene

It's spelled both ways on the page. Are these a typos? Binarypower 04:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Apparently napthalene is not a simple misspelling — it even gets several thousand hits on Google Scholar — but naphthalene is much more common. I think it's more etymologically faithful, too, but for some reason ναφθα doesn't appear in my Liddell & Scott (and neither does ναπθα). —Keenan Pepper 01:07, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

In the table on the right side of the page, under Hazards, it reads: "Dust can form explosive mixtures with air."

I'd say this explains it well enough, although not mentioned in the body of the article. Looking over the table is essential to get the full picture of what's being explained. 70.69.103.189 19:27, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Explosive?

According to some websites (sorry I don't have references) and Brainiac series 4 episode 1, Naphthalene is a very volitile material, and caused a large explosion. Is this correct? or is it naphthalene mixed with another chemical (I've heard chlorates). If naphthalene is explosive, it would need to be mentioned in this article.78.150.166.55 (talk) 10:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Feature in popular culture

This was featured on an episode of House, where it caused a disease which in the end was the main plot of the story! Hopefully someone would be able to write something in these lines. Thanks, Aeryck89 04:11, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Toxicity

..."male and female rats exhibited: evidence of carcinogenic activity, based on increased incidences of adenoma and neuroblastoma of the nose, female mice exhibited some evidence of carcinogenic activity, based on increased incidences of alveolar and bronchiolar adenomas of the lung, and male mice exhibited no evidence of carcinogenic activity."... - I think this needs clarifying/replacing; appears to be contradictory 78.150.166.55 (talk) 10:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)