Eager to dye your hair with ‘nontoxic’ graphene nanoparticles? Not so fast!

WTOP/AP ^ | Mar 20, 2018

[upchuck]

Sorry for the short excerpt but it's an AP article.

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[Kirkwood]

Probably would have a lot of issues with static electricity in your hair.

[Trumpet 1]

Of course I am being silly with posting. Yet being serious I have to wonder, “If the particles are so very small, could they seep into the skull.” And then from there on into the brain?! Attach a virus onto the nano particle and the next thing you know you have got brain disease. An interesting plot for a science fiction movie. Invasion of the shampoo monsters.

[P.O.E.]

[Ozark Tom]

Worry about breathing particles which might enter the lungs, then possibly pass into the blood.

[Vince Ferrer]

Probably would have a lot of issues with static electricity in your hair.

But graphene could make it superconducting, so there's that.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Radiation was once considered safe, even beneficial (due to the discovery that the some European hot springs contain mildly radioactive minerals). At one point they even bottled radioactive drinking water.

[VanShuyten]

I would be more concerned about asbestos-like reactions with the mesothelium. I know graphite doesn’t cause problems (my dad had a pencil lead embedded in his arm since he was ten, and that never led to anything), but I’m curious about how the structure of graphene might promote a reaction.

[Kirkwood]

It would also make your hair harder. Getting your hair cut would take diamond cutting tools.

[Kirkwood]

Graphene is very different from graphite.

[Seruzawa]

Snake oil.

[VanShuyten]

Yes, I know. (See post #2)

[snuffy smiff]

Sounds like the next Tide Pod fad. I mean-what could go wrong?!?

[crusher2013]

They also once thought that bleeding you half to death was healthy!

We’ve advanced since then.

[piasa]

For some people, like the Irish who as a population are unusually predisposed to it, bleeding is still used if they have a usually hereditary condition called hemochromatosis, or “iron storage disease.”

[rawcatslyentist]

They also once thought that bleeding you half to death was healthy!

We’ve advanced since then.

So they say today.

Not tomorrow!

[Paladin2]

It’s OK, it’s Organic.

And has no gluten....

[Telepathic Intruder]

It does temporarily reduce blood pressure. Other than that, all it does is fatigue you by forcing your body to produce more replacement blood.

[wbarmy]

Holy Moly.

How did he get he pencil lead embedded in his arm?

A girl hit me with her purse when I was about age 10 and I got the lead stuck deep into my right shoulder. While in the navy it worked its way out.