[email protected] wrote: > > THANK YOU, BOB! *Great* info here! You certainly put MY heart at ease > about nickel. > > Take care, and keep that distiller crankin! I *just* finished another > lovely batch myself! > > Dameon > ________________________ > > Hi Listers, > Trying to catch on things. Saw interesting postings on nickel etc,etc. > Been checking up on it, nickel as a metal only,not in compounds with > other toxic things. Started by going to Texas A&M at College Station > library.Nothing in 50,000 books in their Tech Section had anything > indicating any nickel toxicity.Next day went to Texas Medical Center > Library in Houston. Went thru it with out finding anything on nickel > toxicity,pure nickel, not compounds.Nada. Called CDC (Center for Disese > Control)in Atlanta. They said never heard of it being toxic and had no > case of it reported. Not satisfied yet called the Poision Control number > it the phone book,Its an 800 number for Cleveland. They never heard of > it and had no cases reported.Not to leave any stone unturned called ATCC > (American Type Culture Collection) in Rockwell,Maryland. > They have over 50,000 Cells of all kinds in cold storage(-321f).Asked > if they had any cells damaged by nickel toxicity in their collection. > Didn`t have any,never heard of it and if they did they would send me > samples for research. Thats what they do, store and provide research > samples for labs ,hospitals or clinics for testing. > So much for the toxicity of nickel. > About heating elements, most elements today are encased. The heating > wire is inside a ceramic tube and that is inside a steel tube,like on > your electric stove. The only place you will see an exposed Nichrome > wire nowadays is in your toaster. It will glow red hot.However no nickel > atoms are coming off of it,its not up to its boiling point(2900C). If > its not boiling it won`t evaporate. Yes I know water evaporates without > boiling. Thats because its vapor pressure is higher than the air,if its > boiled its V.P. gets much higher and it evaporates much faster.However > nickel is a solid not a fluid. It will become a fluid at 2900 Degrees C > and under go vaporization. > Its interesting to note that the latest research shows that nickel is > now a trace element for plants and animals. Legumes (peas,beans and > soybean,clover etc) need it to grow,without it they die.I eat all those > foods everyday so its obvious it,nickel, must be in me in trace amounts > and without it I would have some medical or nutritional deficiency. > Nickel is used in heating wire because it will not combine with OXYGEN > and not oxidize (burn up), a plain iron wire will oxyidize and burn up > is a short time. > > Bless you Bob Lee > -- > oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast > [email protected] Hi Dameon, Nice to know someone else is an early bird,but I don`t like worms Ha-Ha. Just trying to get up to speed again,seems like I`m always behind. To many projects going at once, guess I like it or I wouldn`t do it. Good morning to you.
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