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Re:Nantero comes out of stealth mode: Carbon nanotube based ... by sown on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @02:55AM (#9690448)
I have to disagree. Just having nanotubes flying around your blood stream could probably lead to cirrhosis as the nanotubes of a certain length or more would get trapped inside the liver, causing scaring and damage ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19801780) similar to how miners can get miner's lung (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumoconiosis).

Ultimately it depends on what form the nanotubes are in, but I don't want them just going nilly-willy around an environment.

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Re:Nantero comes out of stealth mode: Carbon nanotube based ... by duaneb on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @02:49PM (#9694444)
> I don't want them just going nilly-willy around an environment.

To be fair, you can say this about pretty much anything. But unlike microbeads, which are intended to be flushed, nobody is suggesting that it would be a good idea to release them into the environment.

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Re:Nantero comes out of stealth mode: Carbon nanotube based ... by sown on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @05:21PM (#9695526)
> To be fair, you can say this about pretty much anything. But unlike microbeads, which are intended to be flushed, nobody is suggesting that it would be a good idea to release them into the environment.

Very true. I'm surrounded by stainless steel but I don't get chromium poisoning. I'm just worried about side effects, about extra CWNT getting out into the open, like how prescription drugs are appearing in the environment.

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