Comment on flouride

• Hylactor@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You just made me mad by helping me realize that the Trump bros are going to break water by removing fluoride long before they fix water by removing lead.

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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Removing fluoride won’t break the water. However, it may break our teeth.

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  • winterayars@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They like the lead, though!

    (Probably. I mean, they did in Flint, MI…)

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• 5oap10116@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah but lead bioaccumulates where as fluoride/ine doesn’t

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you sure fluoride doesn’t? It does accumulate in the soil, building up in crops. Considering fluoride exposure from all sources, many people are above upper safe limits, even from tea drinking alone

    I don’t think fluoride should be added to water as it just pollutes the environment, where 99.99% of water isn’n coming in contact with teeth

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn’t. This is high-school chemistry.

      Fluoride only “accumulates” up to the peak concentration of the environment (no further) on places where it is removed from contact with that environment.

      You can only accumulate fluoride in the soil if you keep adding it and there is almost no rain to wash it away.

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      • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Like how grops are irrigated with town water, and in many areas with lowering rainfall?

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• Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yup, same with PFAS and forever chemicals. Maybe I’m ignorant because I’m not a doctor, but I don’t know if this line of thinking holds water - pun not intended.

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• reptar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lead poisoning becomes evident pretty early though doesn’t it? (With respect to kids)

  I would think that the ratio of persistent exposure to unsafe level has got to be easily higher in cases like Flint than any fluoride-in-the-water usage. Just speculation on my part.

  What measures are taken to avoid screwing up the dosage, anyone know? Maybe predilute so that an oops requires multiple buckets instead of vials?

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