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Don't be too excited. They are as toxic as asbestos. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-nanotube-danger/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/art
by narrator 2y ago
Don't be too excited. They are as toxic as asbestos.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-nanotube-danger/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-nanotube-d...
And, more recently, airborne nanotubes are leading to cancers:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0472-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0472-4
Soon they'll be as common as microplastics and vastly more deadly but hey, cool new gadgets!
- webprofusion 2y agoYou definitely shouldn't eat or breathe anything inside a battery. Agree they should be disposed carefully.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoYou shouldn't coexist with things like asbestos. It's either ignorant or disingenuous to try to equate that with don't drink the drain cleaner.
- Log_out_ 2y agoman that car accident + fire,will definatly not buy that
- narrator 2y agoYou shouldn't eat or breathe building insulation either, but we banned asbestos there. Anything where inhaled microparticles = cancer should not be in any consumer product. Yeah, benzene in gasoline, but the body can metabolize that. Carbon nanotubes stay lodged in tissues forever.