be careful with silver thermal compounds...

[gbomb944]

Some of you may have heard of colloidal silver. Its basically water that has very fine silver particles in it. Sound familiar?

Silver kills many types of germs and it used to used in some medicines. Some people drink water with silver in it even today as it's often promoted as a "miracle cure" for all types of stuff.

Apparently ingesting, breathing the dust of, or getting silver into cuts can cause a condition called argyria. The body breaks down the silver and deposits it under your skin where it eventually turns dark. Kind of like photographic paper except you are the paper.

yikes.

I'm not trying to cause a panic or anything but if you use silver compounds like I do I think it might be a good idea to not get it on your hands and make sure any stray paste is wiped up and disposed of so that it cant get back into the air. Wash your hands with soap and water if you do get it on yourself.


Anyway my stomach is bothering me today so when I saw this it kind of freaked me out.

http://homepages.together.net/~rjstan/rose2.html

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/pharmacy/WebPage/News_CorrespondenceHTML/alert2.htm


google search

http://www.google.com/search?q=argyria&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Ingesting as little as one gram can cause this.

I've gotten it on my hands a lot and just wiped it on a towel or my pants and kept going. Not to mention all the aluminum dust from lapping and cutting on stuff plus all the glycol thats been spilled in my floor. My rooms pretty much a toxic waste dump at this point.

Sorry if this steps on the **ts of anybody in the industry but I felt it should be posted.

peace

 

[wtiger]

yeah taking in relatively large doses of metals is a bad thing and ethhyl glycol is poisinous. It's just common sense. I wouldn't worry too much about arctic silver though. Just use common sense. Wash your hands when you're done with it and don't eat it. The same goes for glycol and for god sake when you lap a heatsink use water. Also known as wet sanding. It'll keep all that garbage out of the air, off of your stuff, out of your lungs and give you a much smoother finish.

 

[peterhoang2002]

well the process in which u apply as5 and that sort of stuff never requires you to come in direct contact with it so if u do it right, u shouldnt be touching it anyways.

 

[velusip]

Yeah I got that. They call me Frosty at the office. (joking)

 

[Fluid]

Yup, it's true. The silver turns black over time. Had a bit of it on my skin once, but never under my skin. That'd take some doing.

 

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