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This material has radiation shielding properties far worse than just lead - lead which is cheaper and easier to manufacture Pure tungsten on the other hand is
by sniperjoe360 4y ago
This material has radiation shielding properties far worse than just lead - lead which is cheaper and easier to manufacture
Pure tungsten on the other hand is very good and can even shield beta particles
- iancmceachern 4y agoYeah but it's lead! Lead isn't a very friendly thing to just have around.
- kragen 4y agopaint it, sheesh
- iancmceachern 4y agoYeah, but you'll never pass RoHS, try shipping a product that doesn't meet RoHS...
- kragen 4y agoare you saying this filament is nothing more than a meaningless exercise in box-checking bureaucracy that is depressing
- iancmceachern 4y agoNo, im saying lead is bad and you can't put it in products anymore. Tungsten is ok
- kragen 4y agolead metal is safer than tungsten to have in your body https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29300000/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29300000/ don't confuse government power with wisdom; in many ways they are opposites