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Do you know how safe the resulting crystals are to handle?
by BuildTheRobots 5y ago
Do you know how safe the resulting crystals are to handle?
- philipkglass 5y agoI believe that they are safe to handle. None of the compounds or elements involved are toxic at moderate doses even if ingested. I personally handled these crystals with bare hands many times.
- errcorrectcode 5y ago> with bare hands many times. That's how my dad and grandfather both contracted a very specific benign bladder cancer. From having their hands in a solvent without gloves. ):
- 0des 5y agoJust curious, which solvent?
- errcorrectcode 5y agoIt was likely MEK or maybe toluene. They had their hands in everything and had to scrub them at the end of the day with pumpice, but the grease never came out completely.
- kragen 5y agoIf you rub them in your eyes hard enough, you can badly injure your corneas. Maybe if you're really creative you can find some other way to damage yourself with them, but that's all I can think of. Tartaric acid can be toxic at 2000 mg/kg or so, but calcium tartrate is much less soluble, so even much larger doses are probably safe.