Comment on Resin Printing is killing you.
newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoBasically everything that has a smell is a VOC. If it wouldn’t be volatile it wouldn’t have a smell. Something being volatile alone doesn’t say anything about it’s toxicity.
Something being organic also doesn’t say anything about toxicity. Your whole body is made out of carbon. Something being an organic compound doesn’t say anything about it’s reactivity either. That’s simply not how it works.
Something being a polymer also doesn’t say anything about it’s toxicity. Proteines are polymers. DNA is a polymer too and neither are particularly toxic. Polymer just means that’s its a structure that repeats itself. Poly = multiple, mer = parts.
Everything you said doesn’t say anything about toxicity. Toxicity depends on the individual compound. Even small alterations can make a harmless molecule toxic.
thantik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All VOCs are reactive. VOCs range from “Known Cancer causing effects” to Mildly harmful, but VOCs are considered harmful. At the ranges presented in the video, they are immediately harmful. If you wanna go huff your resin, you deserve what’s coming to you. I’ve talked to Resin chemists (mostly through the 2019-2020 Midwest RepRap Fests), and they agree with most of what’s in that video.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Nah. It’s just that the reasons he mentions are simply not true. Resin fumes are harmful, but not because they are VOCs or because they’re polymers.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, you’re right. They’re right, but they’re not right about why they’re right.