[Jewelry making - Article 01139] - Re: [Orchid] Toxicity of Detroitite Agate

[John Donivan]

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    I'd never heard of "fordite" before, but a Google search shows the
    endless inventiveness of the human species!!! It's awfully bright for
    my clientele, but it looks really cool, still. Anyway, as my search
    showed me, it's not agate at all. My first inclination was to say,
    "Oh, no, agate isn't toxic". It is Auto paint - yes globs of paint,
    presumably scaped off the floors and walls of factory paintshops and
    very hard. So, even though there is no more lead paint in America,
    there is still a lot of others metals and things in paint. Breathing
    a lot of it's dust can't be a good thing to do. Interesting stuff,
    though - it's a new one on me...

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