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Is this ok? >Yttrium is mostly dangerous in the working environment, due to the fact that damps and gasses can be inhaled with air. This can cause lung embolisms, especially during long-term exposure. Yttrium can also cause cancer with humans, as it enlarges the chances of lung cancer when it is inhaled. >Indium compounds are encountered rarely by most people. All indium compounds should be regarded as highly toxic.…
Is this ok? >Yttrium is mostly dangerous in the working environment, due to the fact that damps and gasses can be inhaled with air. This can cause lung embolisms, especially during long-term exposure. Yttrium can also cause cancer with humans, as it enlarges the chances of lung cancer when it is inhaled. >Indium compounds are encountered rarely by most people. All indium compounds should be regarded as highly toxic.…
Is this ok? >Yttrium is mostly dangerous in the working environment, due to the fact that damps and gasses can be inhaled with air. This can cause lung embolisms, especially during long-term exposure. Yttrium can also cause cancer with humans, as it enlarges the chances of lung cancer when it is inhaled. >Indium compounds are encountered rarely by most people. All indium compounds should be regarded as highly toxic.…
So, probably pretty safe when used appropriately. I wouldn't go inhaling it, since any fine powder's not great for the lungs, but that shouldn't be news to anyone. Just wear your N95 when mixing dry pigments as you always should.
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Just google "mercury amalgam cancer".
I live in pride of my mercury-compound amalgam. You can choose to live in fear. "Numerous other organizations have also publicly declared the safety and effectiveness of amalgam. These include the Mayo clinic,[21] the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),[22] Health Canada,[23] Alzheimer's Association,[24] American Academy of Pediatrics,[25] Autism Society of America,[26] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,[27]…
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Just google "mercury amalgam cancer".
I live in pride of my mercury-compound amalgam. You can choose to live in fear. "Numerous other organizations have also publicly declared the safety and effectiveness of amalgam. These include the Mayo clinic,[21] the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),[22] Health Canada,[23] Alzheimer's Association,[24] American Academy of Pediatrics,[25] Autism Society of America,[26] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,[27]…
“A large retrospective cohort study found a significant association of mercury based fillings with the development of Parkinson's disease.”
(Reference to 2000 - 2008 study in Taiwan.)
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Probably not good, but consider Cadmium Red, Chromium Green, Lead White, and Vermillion (Mercury), among others.
Yeah, but they cause cancer. Things like lymphomas that killed Bob Ross cuz those are the pigments painters use.
It's now banned in paint thinners as a result of some pretty long lobbying efforts. It's a little sad, since chemicals like DCM are hard to replace, but if it saves the lives of our artists at the expense of them having a bit of a harder time cleaning their brushes, maybe we can live with that.
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You can see the blue pigment on an AMD Radeon Pro graphics card. https://www.amd.com/en/graphics/workstation-series
I kind of thought you were kidding, because nobody on earth cares what color their workstation/datacenter graphics card is... but indeed they are using YInMn blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMXS1A2uBeE And made a video about how cool they are for putting certain paint on a graphics card. I will continue to be amused because people call Intel "team blue" and AMD "team red", but in this case AMD's product is blue…
>AMD announced in July 2016 that the pigment would be used on new Radeon Pro WX and Pro SSG professional GPUs for the energy efficiency that stems from its near-infrared reflecting property
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Chemical reactions (such as forming it into a pigment) greatly change the biological effects substances have. For example, you probably shouldn't drink OH- or H2O2, even though it is made of the same atoms as water. Just because the pure elemental form is toxic doesn't make compounds with it toxic as well.
I don't think that is a very good example. A better example would be is there a safe compound with lead or arsenic or mercury (known toxic elements) you would want to take into your body?
Dental amalgam
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Very insightful. Will be interested to know of your preferred 12 colour palette.
I use a Yellow Ochre Light, Pthalo Blue, Titanium White, Zinc White, Transparent Oxide Red (for blocking), Pthalo Green and Perylene Red :) Although, you can just use Richard Schmid's palette, replace all the toxic junk with modern pigments and you're good to go. The thing is to stick with the palette forever for many decades so that your paintings have a cohesive harmony.
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> I kind of thought you were kidding, because nobody on earth cares what color their workstation/datacenter graphics card is... I’m not sure if you’re joking here or something, but as it turns out, many people buy video cards to play video games, and many of them care about how their gaming device looks like. They install LEDs and stuff. It’s pretty cool.
True, but these are workstation cards, they're for GPGPU workloads or Rendering workstations for pro artist. You'd rarely if ever find them in a gaming PC (too expensive with no real benefit for gaming workloads).
I got a used one off eBay for my tower, mostly because I wanted something AMD for linux usage with as low heat emission as possible, but honestly I really like the look of that blue too :)
Even if I have a black boxy case with no fancy windows or anything else... Interesting to learn it's this neat pigment.