• just_change_it@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Researchers found that carefully controlled inhalation of the nanomaterial has no short-term adverse effects on lung or cardiovascular function.

    I’ll bet that long term this will result in cancer… like nearly everything else.

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      7 months ago

      I mean just about any kind of rock dust will cause silicosis. Apparently graphite causes graphitosis. If it doesn’t cause cancer, it’ll still drastically reduce quality of life - it can be extremely painful.

      No idea about graphene though, but I’m glad that they are still performing safety studies on it. The material has a lot of extremely useful applications.

  • bloopernova@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, that kind of thing was said about plastics. And now we have microplastics in cells causing who knows what trouble.