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What generally happens to kids that find a US nickel on the ground/floor and swallow it without their parents notice? This must have happened a million of times
by njarboe 8y ago
What generally happens to kids that find a US nickel on the ground/floor and swallow it without their parents notice? This must have happened a million of times.
- Kalium 8y agoBased on the documentation provided by a sibling comment, I think the answer is that ingestion of the metallic form is not so bad. It's some nickel compounds and inhalation that are particularly dangerous. Again, the document posted by a sibling (https://rais.ornl.gov/tox/profiles/nickel_and_nickel_compounds_f_V1.html https://rais.ornl.gov/tox/profiles/nickel_and_nickel_compoun...) likely contains all the detail you could wish for. Also, nickels are about 75% copper.
- wincy 8y agoNot a kid, but I’m allergic to nickel and my daughter threw some quarters in my bed. I didn’t realize it and slept with a quarter burning a hole into my side. I woke up with a quarter-shaped rash that lasted about a week.
- sitkack 8y agoThis is like the reverse of a super power.