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[CobaltSky]

Sulfuric acid as well. The acetone is a solvent for the isoamyl alcohol.

The rise in cancer rates over the last century is an interesting topic in itself. There are many contributing factors, the most significant being the dramatic increase in average lifespan. Everybody will get cancer eventually, its just a matter of time and actuarial tables. So if people live longer then cancer rates will increase without any other factors being involved. Pollution by cars, power plants, chemical processing facilities etc also contribute. And since 1945: increased ambient ionising radiation. It would be impossible to prove that a single compound is responsible, because there are so many factors that any one cause is negligible and no study could eliminate enough variables to provide a conclusive result. That's why every other issue of the Daily Fail headlines with "x will give you cancer", coffee can either cure or cause cancer depending on what your sources are. The reality is that certain groups of coffee drinkers are more or less likely to get cancer due to some other contributing factor.

Does cooking with teflon coated pans increase your risk of cancer? Possibly. You could offset that relative risk by moving to an area with less granite or farther away from a coal fired power station. Fretting over every 0.001% will probably do more harm to your health overall; the link between stress levels and health being well established

[spikeychops]

How can you be so sensible at 03:41 hours! ;-) I'm lucky if i can type properly at that time, let alone make any sense..

Agreed of the Ionising radiation since the mid forties..what is the total now..about 2,500 nuclear detonations so far? A lot were below ground of course, but many weren't...that has to be a factor...DU rounds aren't helping much on that front...add in Five mile Island, Windscale, Chernobyl and the Japan disaster, and that doesn't do a lot to help either.

The danger of so many avenues of possible causation is as you say, it's neigh on impossible to isolate any one of them to solely pin the blame on...which opens the real possibility that unscrupulous and deep pocketed corporations interested in the bottom line, may be tempted to take advantage of that fact when determining relative safety of a product.

Edited by spikeychops, 05 January 2012 - 10:06 AM.

[CobaltSky]

I'm currently nursing a nasty cold. I slept through most of the day and only woke up at 10PM, couldn't go back to sleep so my only option was tooling around the internet with a cup of hot chocolate to keep me company.

[dasnk]

I think atomisers do require attention. E-Juice is nearly always the focus when it comes health questions. But it is possible for an atomiser to consist of harmful materials. Whether that is unsuitable metals, or the fibreglass, silica, ceramic cord and their coatings, or other.

I'm using an atty right now that is a cheap knock off of a joye product. The manufacturer is anonymous, all I know is that they wanted to beat joyetech on price, as for what the thing is made of, or who it is made by, who knows.

[Ravenscroft]

I like it that you care so much Shpaolin.

We will always get a good product with this attention to detail.

RC

[shpaolin]

Thanks. People start calling me paranoid.

[DrLuap]

shpaolin, on 29 December 2011 - 03:48 PM, said:

No. I was looking for isolation solution for mod with integrated genesis atty (Silver dog) that we are building.
And teflon was one of the materials that we consider using. And i start to search the internet
for any info about teflon. I read this articles about birds dieing , teflon flu etc...
So i asked a question , maybe someone knows more. I never messured what temperature mesh-kanthal
have on lets say 4.5V. So if anyone knows more that would be great. Thank you.

Hi - just come across this - Shpaolin if it is a ptfe plug at the neck of your Silver Wolf where mesh goes in at the top - why not isolate it with a small steel tube!