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Re:Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs by gene-h on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @01:44PM (#10427079)
It has been found that various organisms can degrade carbon nanotubes, so they won't irreversibly permeate the ecosystem[0]. But we really shouldn't be dumping them into the air.

[0] http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v5/n5/full/nnano.2010.44...

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Re:Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs by sitkack on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @01:56PM (#10427192)
Just because horseradish can break down nanotubes doesn't mean I can inject into the cells I already have. The existence of a catalyst doesn't make nanotubes suddenly safe.
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Re:Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs by aetherson on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @02:54PM (#10427690)
Fortunately, that's not what your parent poster said.
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Re:Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs by sitkack on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @11:26PM (#10430241)
And I can't read the whole paper since it is paywalled.

> We have shown previously that single-walled carbon nanotubes can be catalytically biodegraded over several weeks by the plant-derived enzyme, horseradish peroxidase1.

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