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Silica is one of the most abundant oxides in the earths crust. Our bodies have no problem dealing with it.
by lwat 16y ago
Silica is one of the most abundant oxides in the earths crust. Our bodies have no problem dealing with it.
- Groxx 16y agoIn larger-scale chunks (ie, dust). There have been a lot of questions how nano-scale particles react in our bodies, some of them apparently very differently, and not very much science because the creation of them in relatively large quantities is such a new development. So yes, lets add new things to food without the testing we require of drugs, and lets do it on a massive scale.
- ScottBurson 16y agoI have one word for you, but it's a doozy: pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
- Groxx 16y ago... a disease where you breathe sub-microscopic silicon volcanoes?
- ecuzzillo 16y agoMy best guess is where you breathe "ultra" fucken tiny silica bits from a volcano.
- rhizome 16y agowait, so they're going to coat everything with volcanoes?
- pyre 16y agoNo. The spray can will just be shaped like a volcano.
- ciex 16y agoSo is this the beginning influx of reddit jokes on HN?
- intended 16y agoNo.
- ecuzzillo 16y agoI didn't actually intend it to be a stupid joke; I was actually trying to parse the word, and then it turned out I was in the middle of a redditesque joke thread. But, no, I doubt it, especially given the number of downmods.
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- rhizome 16y agoAh, I don't read the Reddit. Mea culpa!
- lwat 16y agoYou mean pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis right?
- Mizza 16y agoBeen waiting your whole life to break that one out, haven't you? If that doesn't deserve an upvote I don't know what does.
- arethuza 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis