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    Here's what prolonged exposure to arsenic can do to the human body, and this is a mild case.

    After seven years of refining some platinum group metals I have become sensitized to palladium, I have become a human metal detector, when ever I'm near palladium my skin burns as if it were on fire.

    I'm not going to keep watch on your posts to see what mischief you've been up to, some of the junk you've shown certainly qualifies as hazardous.

    My advice to join the gold forum was not given lightly.



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    Not to worry. I won't be smelting in open air - all closed system with scrubbers. Everything will be contained, recycled, reprocessed.
    I'll be doing very tiny quantities, 10 grams. I will begin with simple amounts, and work my way up to complex alloys/impure slag.

    Was talking to a person that uses mercury to recover gold, and he said to be very careful as his small chemistry set exploded on him one day.
    I will be doing a lot of research before attempting things like mercury/cyanide/acids.

    Read this just before joining. I do understand your concerns, thank you.
    https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6449a4.htm

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