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They don’t need to be filtered. They get trapped in mucus. The constant flow of mucus from all your mucosal membranes pushes these outwards. In the case of you
by frutiger 7y ago
They don’t need to be filtered. They get trapped in mucus. The constant flow of mucus from all your mucosal membranes pushes these outwards.
In the case of your lungs they get delivered to the great acid bath that is your stomach.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoThis. We evolved in an environment with plenty of particulate matter. It's the exotic stuff that has no analog from the time when we evolved that causes problems.
- firethief 7y agoAs opposed to acrylic?
- jacobush 7y agoWithout knowing for sure, I imagine acrylic to be inert and most like any other dust on the time scale it takes for our bodies to expel it. But I could be wrong. Certainly, there are modern dangerous materials which do affect us, such as asbestos and heavy metals.