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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: IceFire on March 21, 2005, 04:57:59 pm

Title: Toxic chemicals and teflon? Read on
Post by: IceFire on March 21, 2005, 04:57:59 pm: Great article presented by CBC's Marketplace about Teflon and a related chemical that breaks down into a potentially toxic substance. And guess what...its everywhere.

Read:
http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/teflon/index.html

This is why having a publically funded news and broadcasting agency which is partially free of corporate advertising influence pays off...in dividends.
Title: Toxic chemicals and teflon? Read on
Post by: vyper on March 21, 2005, 05:01:19 pm: Holy **** I have teflon in my suit trousers....

Oh bollocks!
Title: Toxic chemicals and teflon? Read on
Post by: MicroPsycho on March 21, 2005, 06:04:46 pm: do I want to read it knowing i'll discover something horrible?

EDIT: Read about half it to get the gist of it and honestly, I'm not worried.
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Post by: Solatar on March 21, 2005, 06:05:54 pm: Well...all my school uniform clothes are treated with teflon...

If I showed up wearing a Pantera shirt and faded jeans, think I could use this as an excuse?
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Post by: Taristin on March 21, 2005, 07:36:15 pm: Teflon... kills birds, you know. If you heat a teflon pan too hot.
Title: Toxic chemicals and teflon? Read on
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 22, 2005, 01:30:48 am: Anything is dangerous.

If you throw it hard enough.
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Post by: Flaser on March 22, 2005, 06:03:36 am: Teflon has fluor in it, the most rabid element beside radioactives.

It's no suprise teflon wasn't meant to be burned in you owen.
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Post by: aldo_14 on March 22, 2005, 06:26:36 am: Quote
Originally posted by ngtm1r
Anything is dangerous.

If you throw it hard enough.

Jelly

Oh, and what Americans call jelly is actually Jam. I don't know what the Us name for proper jelly is, but it's made of gelatine
Title: Toxic chemicals and teflon? Read on
Post by: Sandwich on March 22, 2005, 10:59:22 am: http://www.dhmo.org/
Title: Toxic chemicals and teflon? Read on
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 22, 2005, 02:21:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14

Jelly

Oh, and what Americans call jelly is actually Jam. I don't know what the Us name for proper jelly is, but it's made of gelatine

Hypersonic velocities.

Granted I don't know how you'd throw it that hard, but it would be dangerous.
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Post by: vyper on March 22, 2005, 02:24:45 pm: Use some sort of maglev propulsion.
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Post by: Sandwich on March 22, 2005, 03:17:57 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14

Jelly

Oh, and what Americans call jelly is actually Jam. I don't know what the Us name for proper jelly is, but it's made of gelatine

Jell-o, I believe.
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Post by: Ford Prefect on March 22, 2005, 03:42:18 pm: No, we have a difference between jelly and jam. They're both spreads, but jelly is more, err... jelatinous, whereas jam just kind of glops, and it usually has seeds in it. Jell-O is something entirely different.
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Post by: Flipside on March 22, 2005, 03:49:59 pm: Having had both Jelly (called 'Preserve' in the UK) and Jam, I can confirm that.

And yes, what the British call Jelly, the Americans tend to call Jello, which is actually a brand name. :)

From toxic Teflon to Railgunned Jelly, we really do get around don't we? ;)
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Post by: Taristin on March 22, 2005, 06:00:57 pm: Geletine is geletine. Jello is a geletine snack brand. jeez.
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Post by: Bobboau on March 22, 2005, 08:57:16 pm: odd, I would have thought that the news network owned by Monsanto would have mentioned this...
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Post by: aldo_14 on March 23, 2005, 03:54:57 am: DuPont confirms Teflon "Worlds best thing ever" is completely safe
Denies is not safe and kills stuff "cos that report was all rubbish and stuff and we won't make any money off it"
Title: Toxic chemicals and teflon? Read on
Post by: beatspete on March 23, 2005, 04:36:08 am: Quote
Originally posted by ngtm1r

Hypersonic velocities.

Granted I don't know how you'd throw it that hard, but it would be dangerous.

Main problem is you need to throw it quite close to the target, things like jelly, feathers, and other non lethal novelty items tend not to go very far, regardless of how hard you throw them. :sigh:

As for teflon, should I be worried about my pans?.... Nah, I'm off to fry some breakfast.
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Post by: Bobboau on March 23, 2005, 07:03:43 am: well the network owned by monsanto wouldn't have said that, becase bad news for dupont is good news for monsanto.
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Post by: Clave on March 23, 2005, 07:14:28 am: Jelly is Nature's Teflon, and the sooner we wake up and smell the burning toxins, the better it will be. (NB: jelly only turns into teflon at Mach 7 and beyond) :nervous: