It is still a valid question - naturally does not equate to safe. In fact you name it, and at some level it will kill you. Water - hyponatremia. Too much air pressure kills you if you go to low pressure too fast. Too much light and you get burns.
However, it is still carbon which is about as non-toxic as you can get, just don't plug up the aleolae in your lungs with it. I stole this from Wiki (it is interesting): " Pure carbon has extremely low toxicity to humans and can be handled and even ingested safely in the form of graphite or charcoal. It is resistant to dissolution or chemical attack, even in the acidic contents of the digestive tract, for example. Consequently once it enters into the body's tissues it is likely to remain there indefinitely. Carbon black was probably one of the first pigments to be used for tattooing, and Ötzi the Icemanwas found to have carbon tattoos that survived during his life and for 5200 years after his death.[105] However, inhalation of coal dust or soot (carbon black) in large quantities can be dangerous, irritating lung tissues and causing the congestive lung disease coalworker's pneumoconiosis. Similarly, diamond dust used as an abrasive can do harm if ingested or inhaled. Microparticles of carbon are produced in diesel engine exhaust fumes, and may accumulate in the lungs.[106] In these examples, the harmful effects may result from contamination of the carbon particles, with organic chemicals or heavy metals for example, rather than from the carbon itself. Carbon generally has low toxicity to almost all life on Earth; however, to some creatures it can still be toxic. For instance, *carbon nanoparticles are deadly to Drosophila.*[107] Carbon may also burn vigorously and brightly in the presence of air at high temperatures. Large accumulations of coal, which have remained inert for hundreds of millions of years in the absence of oxygen, may spontaneously combust when exposed to air, for example in coal mine waste tips. In nuclear applications where graphite is used as a neutron moderator, accumulation of Wigner energy followed by a sudden, spontaneous release may occur. Annealing to at least 250 °C can release the energy safely, although in the Windscale fire the procedure went wrong, causing other reactor materials to combust. The great variety of carbon compounds include such lethal poisons as tetrodotoxin, the lectin ricin from seeds of the castor oil plant Ricinus communis, cyanide (CN−) and carbon monoxide; and such essentials to life as glucose and protein. " On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 7:23 PM, via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, it is naturally occurring. Lightning and other electrical arcs > will create it. The discovery is an interesting story in itself. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene> > > Bruce > > > > On Dec 11, 2014, at 5:00 PM, via EV <[email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > > > > Message: 5 > > Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:21:39 +0000 > > From: Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > To: evdl <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Subject: [EVDL] nanocarbon effects on environment? > > Message-ID: <em9483004d-f5d4-403a-a895-bb4f5e94019e@peri-laptop> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > > > From a technological point of view, nanocarbons are providing for > > incredible new products from batteries to textiles. However, I've seen > > nothing about their long term effects on the environment. What will > > happen as more and more products containing nanocarbons end up in the > > soils, rivers, and oceans? > > > > They aren't a naturally occurring material so, I presume, there are no > > natural ways for organisms to process them. Will they simply pass > > through? Will they have effects like asbestos? Will they act more like > > radioactive particles and affect DNA? > > > > There seems to be scant research on this, or at least scant publicity. > > Should our governments be more proactive in ensuring proper recycling or > > destruction of no-longer wanted products containing nanocarbon? > > > > Peri > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141211/8beb6c24/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." 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