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Just remember carbon nanotubes are highly carcinogenic.
by Ice_cream_suit 7y ago
Just remember carbon nanotubes are highly carcinogenic.
- ganzuul 7y agoIs breaking open processors and inhaling the dust a common occurrence where you live?
- Ice_cream_suit 7y agoAlthough that sounds like fun (for certain values of fun), the issue would exposure during fabrication and possibly during destruction of nano tube containing equipment.
- the8472 7y agoWe have to rely on them handling hazardous substances properly anyway since semiconductor manufacturing already involves many of them. They use ClF₃ and sulfuric acid as cleaning agents, phosphine for doping, silane for CVD, etc.
- naasking 7y agoIndustrial scale manufacturing of just about anything probably involves quite a few carcinogens.
- Symmetry 7y agoI'm afraid that there are already a great number of unfriendly chemicals involved in the manufacture of regular old silicon ICs.
- true_tuna 7y agoI’ve worked in data centers. The constant air circulation causes dust to accumulate in visible places. I assure you, computers are not as sealed up and tidy as you’d think. We used to jokingly call the hard, thick, black dust “cancer”. It’s hard to know what’s in it without study, but when you manufacture something with dangerous materials some amount of that material makes it onto and into the finished product. I’m not advocating for alarm, but your po-pi-ing comment was designed to minimize and it demands counterpoint.
- jiggawatts 7y agoYou're not breathing silicon dust! Chips in all computers are highly encased, either in ceramic, hard plastic, metal, or some combination. They're never, ever, exposed to the air circulating through a computer, because the dust would destroy the delicate circuitry. If you're regularly cracking open chips to snack on them, you have bigger problems...