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Mercury amalgam (silver, tin, zinc, copper, etc) fillings.
There is a strong correlation between incidence of mercury amalgam and alzheimer's. Obviously correlation is not causation, but I'd still be wary of putting mercury in my body...
These people really didnt think about how people are going to pronounce their pigment? YInMn - what a monster of a name. In the olden days at least people gave colors great names that were easy to prounounce and provided them personality. Ultramarine, prussian blue.. Even vantablack has a nice rhythm. It's nice as techinical name, I guess, but I'd hope they have some better brand name they are going by.
Tangentially, as a non-native speaker, "ultramarine" has a fairly similar amount of information encoded in the name as "Yinmn"--pretty much zero. So, the two names ("ultramarine" vs "yinmn") are pretty much equivalent to eme, personally.
Goes to show that naming things "properly" is difficult (I suspect it's impossible actually).
If I was working in a lab and my experiment turned a deep blue I'd say "cool!" and move on. I didn't know that discovering a new color was something meaningful. I wonder who told these scientists "stop what you're doing you've just discovered a new pigment".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben
Do you know what the name means?
I've bought several hundred tubes of paint in last 20 years. I've seen artists gravitating towards more expensive paints as a sign of better pigmentation which is completely misplaced. Pricing of pigments is largely a complex equation including marketing by paint manufacturers to pose Cadmiums and Chromiums as "premium" quality paints. The truth couldn't be farther from that. Modern synthetic pigments are superior, s…
> In economics and consumer theory, a Giffen good is a product that people consume more of as the price rises and vice versa
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What about Barium? Water-soluble barium compounds are toxic while the insoluble barium sulfate is used as radiocontrast agent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barium_sulfate#Radiocontrast_a...
Well sulfates in general tend to be highly insoluble in water, and therefore biologically inert, so I think this is still kind of a cherry-picked example
Anyone here have suggestions for viewing this and other novel pigments?
https://www.scotch-soda.com/fi/en/men/shirts/long-sleeve-100...
I am somewhat dubious though if that is genuinely yinmn, but interesting nevertheless that they are marketing it as such.
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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?
These people really didnt think about how people are going to pronounce their pigment? YInMn - what a monster of a name. In the olden days at least people gave colors great names that were easy to prounounce and provided them personality. Ultramarine, prussian blue.. Even vantablack has a nice rhythm. It's nice as techinical name, I guess, but I'd hope they have some better brand name they are going by.
Anyways, you're on HN, you know geeks shouldn't name things, but they do anyways. Think "XBox" as a perfect example.