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Nanoparticles. They irritate your lungs in ways that are very similar to asbestos irritation. And of course, it's your body's reaction to the irritation that
by AskewEgret 9y ago
Nanoparticles. They irritate your lungs in ways that are very similar to asbestos irritation. And of course, it's your body's reaction to the irritation that kills you.
Example:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.7b01873 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.7b01873
- copperx 9y agoSo I'm assuming that includes zinc oxide sunscreen, which is touted as the "least harmful sunscreen" there is.
- vanderZwan 9y agoWell, that a cream, not dust. So is more of a skin issue, so then the question there is whether it penetrates the skin and turns out to do stuff to the tissue underneath. I guess that the problem with a lot of these things is that we don't have good (enough?) predictive models for long-term damage.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoI sure hope not, as it's the only type of sunscreen that really works for me.