[Jewelry making - Article 00307] - Re: [Orchid] Safer pickles

[Christine Denayer]

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    Hi Lee, You raise an interesting point, indeed. One of the easiest
    questions you can expect them to ask you in school is: what are the
    risks of developing lung cancer? It's smoking and living in an urban
    area. As to your second question about the danger of a pickle pot in
    comparision to environmental pollution, a pickle pot is environmental
    pollution of your work space adding to the environmental pollution
    you are already exposed anyway. I work in a little room and sometimes
    I am soldering things for half a day non stop. The concentration of
    fume in the room has to be gigantic, whatever the precautions. I
    worry about these things. I worry about sulphuric acid, I worry about
    UV light - problem solved long ago - I worry about silica and I worry
    about wax fumes. Sometimes I spend hours melting little pieces of
    (hard, green) wax and 'soldering' them to other pieces, while I am
    with my nose as good as right on it. I am sure that this an hazard,
    as this wax contains plastics. These fumes come in to your body and
    locate themselves in your body fat. You will never get rid of them
    again. Best, Will



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