Ever wonder what happens to medications when they are no good? Ever wanted to know how they are destroyed?
Well...lucky for you, you have to wonder no longer! Now, there are many ways to denature and destroy medication...but, here on the ship, we do it by way of incineration. Tonight, Miriam and I had the opportunity to incinerate LOTS of medication.
First, we had to pack all the medication to be destroyed into brown paper bags. This makes it easier to place in the incinerator, without things melting to it...or something like that. Then, we filled a drum full of those paper bags...which then got lowered down to Deck 2 (the Engine Room) from Deck 3 (in the Hospital).
This is the incinerator. Exciting, no?
You can't see it, but the incinerator is reading about 840 degrees Celcius...which equals about 1544 degrees Fahrenheit for all of you who may operate in that temperature measurement. All in all...HOT!
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