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    Carbon Nanotubes May Present a Cancer Risk

    By Posted on 5.21.2008 5 Comments

    If inhaled, certain kinds of carbon nanotubes - the tiny technology used in a wide variety of applications - could increase an individual's risk of cancer, according to scientists. Researchers injected mice with nanotubes, and found that the super-strong fibers created the same sort of problems as asbestos.

    8.16.2008 at 12:47pm - Comment by Shannon10

    My opinion on the cancer, which opinions mean nothing without approval/thesis, Are that the reason that cancer is formed, is from Carbon Monoxide [Co2] And that being, that carbon is the main culprit. I mean, Lung Cancer, Can't have Carbon monoxide without breathing, which when you inhale smoke from the cigarette you just puffed, you're limiting your breathing capacity. For instance, say I was a normal man breathing, just inhaling oxygen and breathing out carbon monoxide. And a man beside me was breathing Carbon Monoxide, and Inhaling Carbon Monoxide and taking a puff of a cigarette every 20 seconds.. Thats a Quarter of a minute lost of breathing, and so then.. After losing that minute of breathing, still does it, Loses a half.. He then feels a buzz of the cigarette because of the carbon monoxide filling the lungs, as if a house fire. That is why I think Carbon Monoxide is the killer cause of Cancers. because if we inhale so much it's the same as a house fire.



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