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tahallium
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I'm scared
I'm really sorry but please I need to post this
I opened a lead-acid car battery last week and I used a kitchen axe to open the battery I didn't remember if I touched the lead with it or not but my
stupid sister used the axe for cutting an omelette and I'm really angry cuz she didn't even wash it what should I do? I took a blood test but it's
just about the red blood cells and anemia and I was okay
How can I know if we're poisoned
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A lethal dose of lead is about 450 mg/kg body weight. So multiple that out for you and your family and think about how much lead that is that would
have needed to have been stuck to your axe, then have been transferred to you food. I think you should also be angry at yourself for using kitchen
utensils for chemistry. Most important lesson here is make some changes so that you have clear separation between your hobby and dinner plate.
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It is unlikely that whatever lead residue resided on the axe would be dangerous. However you should watch out for symptoms of lead poisoning in the
next few months.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lead-poisonin...
If any symptoms show up, get medical attention immediately
Additionally you should always ensure laboratory equipment is kept away from food and drink and inform anyone who might even has a fraction of a
chance to accidentally use it.
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tahallium
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I'm really sorry I know what I did was wrong and I'm scared if there's arsenic or thallium or cadmium not just lead the axe btw doesn't have Sharp
edges I'm just so nervous right now
Can I give everyone EDTA?
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Quote: Originally posted by tahallium  | I'm really sorry I know what I did was wrong and I'm scared if there's arsenic or thallium or cadmium not just lead the axe btw doesn't have Sharp
edges I'm just so nervous right now
Can I give everyone EDTA?
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Although it was stupid to use kitchen tools, its even stupider to panic. You arent helping yourself by doing that. Besides, you will probably be fine
anyways.
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First of all... kitchen axe? You know what, no, never mind.
As others have pointed out, there wouldn’t be enough lead transferred even in the worst case scenario for it to be harmful. I wouldn’t worry about
it. Don’t go eating EDTA or giving it to your family. Given your obvious incompetence with chemicals you’d probably just hurt yourself somehow.
Seems like the only condition you have is chemical hypochondria, based on everything you’ve posted so far between this thread and the other one,
where clearly the multiple assurances that you received about there not being any arsenic in car batteries hasn’t sunk in at all.
Based on your username, your current mood, and your posts so far, it looks like you are overly interested in the most toxic elements and you’re
pretending to be afraid when really you relish the “thrill” of potentially exposing yourself, and the attention that it can get you here.
If you want to prove that you actually care about chemistry, ditch the car battery and learn to work with some more benign compounds like those of
copper and iron before you touch anything with lead in it again.
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Lead acetate used to be used by the Romans to sweeten wine. Dumb idea with what we know now but it wasn't instant death either.
I avoid working with lead and I take precautions when I do. But I am not scared of it either.
Tex is right. Until you get you skill and knowledge levels up, you should try a different beginner project. If only for your sanity rather than to
mitigate any actual risk. Copper is a wonderful start and a lot more interesting than lead too. Or get hold of some Al powder and try your hand at
some thermite reactions like I did. Maybe do some electrolysis. I made my own sulfuric acid for a year. Or switch to a carbon zinc batter and make it
a challenge to isolate as many pure compounds as you can from it. Or disassemble some fireworks and isolate the components. Or distill some hardware
store products for solvents. Or isolate acetylsalicylic acid from aspirin. Ir perform extractions on plant materials. Or create and test your own
indicators from fruits, vegetables and flowers. Or just about anything except savaging a car battery with kitchen utensils.
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Please don’t go using easily mistaken kitchen components for chemical experiments. You’ll destroy them more than likely, and can do things like
this; contaminating yourself or others.
Check out the ScienceMadness Wiki: http://www.sciencemadness.org/smwiki/index.php/Main_Page
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What else would you use to cut an omelette? You can't make an omelette without chopping down a few eggs.
(Actually, I can see there being an axe in the kitchen if they have a wood-fired stove, like my grandmother used for many years.)
[Edited on 29-2-2020 by DraconicAcid]
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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tahallium
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Thanks everybody
((((First of all I USED TAHALLIUM just because my real name is TAHA ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯))) find me on Instagram and you'll understand (DON'T
FOLLOW ME)
maybe I overreacted a little but I started doing chemistry two years ago I just ask about toxic substances not to make them or get them I just want to
make sure I'm not doing something really dangerous (I really don't want to work with arsenic compounds)
I melted some zinc from a carbon zinc battery and I'm nervous even though there's 0% cadmium Mercury
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Use an AXE to cut omelette?! dont u have any knives?
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I think the biggest take away from this is to NEVER let your chemistry and your food cross. Always use separate equipment for your hobby. Beakers,
stir rods, lab spatulas, etc. aren't just for aesthetics (although they are pretty aesthetic), their design is distinct from kitchen and other
utensils to avoid cross contamination (as well as just being much better for chemistry). My advice is: Pick up some lab utensils online, they aren't
overly expensive if you know where to look, and NEVER and I repeat NEVER EVER use anything from your kitchen for your chemistry and vice versa. Your
health is worth some money spent on specialized tools.
PS: An axe seems a bit excessive for an omelette, but that could just be me. 
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| Quote: Originally posted by tahallium | Thanks everybody
((((First of all I USED TAHALLIUM just because my real name is TAHA ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯))) find me on Instagram and you'll understand (DON'T
FOLLOW ME)
maybe I overreacted a little but I started doing chemistry two years ago I just ask about toxic substances not to make them or get them I just want to
make sure I'm not doing something really dangerous (I really don't want to work with arsenic compounds)
I melted some zinc from a carbon zinc battery and I'm nervous even though there's 0% cadmium Mercury
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If you are nervous about melting zinc, maybe you should choose a different hobby. Thats one of the most benign things I can think of, and even if
there was some amounts of a heavy metal it wouldn't be a problem. Most of us hobbies work with toxic substances all the time, and are never scared of
it because we know there is no reason to and we know what we are doing.
You arent going to kill yourself by melting pennies.
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| Quote: Originally posted by GreenJames | I think the biggest take away from this is to NEVER let your chemistry and your food cross. Always use separate equipment for your hobby. Beakers,
stir rods, lab spatulas, etc. aren't just for aesthetics (although they are pretty aesthetic), their design is distinct from kitchen and other
utensils to avoid cross contamination (as well as just being much better for chemistry). My advice is: Pick up some lab utensils online, they aren't
overly expensive if you know where to look, and NEVER and I repeat NEVER EVER use anything from your kitchen for your chemistry and vice versa. Your
health is worth some money spent on specialized tools.
PS: An axe seems a bit excessive for an omelette, but that could just be me.
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That is excellent advice. But if you do use somthing from your kitchen in your chemistry hobby you should clean it before placing in back in the
kitchen or better yet do not return it to kitchen use and store it in a safe place so that it can not be used by anyone else in the kitchen.
Though I hesitate to mention it melting zinc to a high temperature can produce zinc vapour or zinc oxide dust which if inhaled can give you metal fume
fever
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_fume_fever
"Metal fume fever is a condition in which the sufferer has influenza type symptoms - a raised temperature, chills, aches and pains, nausea and
dizziness. It is caused by exposure to the fume of certain metals - commonly zinc. ... The symptoms start to appear several hours after exposure."
I am wg48 but not on my usual pc hence the temp handle.
Thank goodness for Fleming and the fungi.
Old codger' lives matters, wear a mask and help save them.
Be aware of demagoguery, keep your frontal lobes fully engaged.
I don't know who invented mRNA vaccines but they should get a fancy medal and I hope they made a shed load of money from it.
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Scary Stuff
I am scared too. All of this talk about kitchen axes
and cutting omlettes. Very scary!
"Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and it
looks like work" T.A. Edison
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It says they are from Tunisia, probably just a local term for kitchen knife.
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probably not much to worry about anyone following YOU
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tahallium
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Yes it was an axe and yes she used it for the first time to cut an omelette and it makes me angry I don't know how her brain works
I used the axe to cut the battery case cuz it's so hard
She didn't wash it
I put it outside for now and it's much dirtier in the picture
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That would be a cleaver in English. But that's really overkill for an omelette.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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tahallium
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I KNOW RIGHT??
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Unlikely any lead residue remained on your axe.
Sounds like you already saw a doctor given you took tests. No EDTA. Too much of the wrong form of EDTA may stop your heart by chelating calcium.
If it would make you feel better, purchase and consume a handful of Brazil nuts. I see Tunisia exports them. Brazil nuts are usually rich in Selenium,
which is antagonistic against lead... allowing your body to better excrete. Your body also handles trace amounts of heavy/toxic metals via enzymes all the
time, you'll be fine.
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tahallium
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Thanks Andy you've been so helpful
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| Quote: Originally posted by DraconicAcid |
What else would you use to cut an omelette? You can't make an omelette without chopping down a few eggs.
(Actually, I can see there being an axe in the kitchen if they have a wood-fired stove, like my grandmother used for many years.)
[Edited on 29-2-2020 by DraconicAcid] |
To chop eggs ok.
But if you need an axe to cut an omelette you probably made it wrong anyway 
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I'm scared too. Never seen so much imbecility! Cut an omlet with an axe already demonstrates what you do with chemicals. Be careful to not explode
yourself!
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| Quote: Originally posted by Chemi Pharma |
I'm scared too. Never seen so much imbecility! Cut an omlet with an axe already demonstrates what you do with chemicals. Be careful to not explode
yourself!
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Never seen such imbecility? Oh come on now!
We have seen much worse. We see it all the time.
One positive thing we can all learn from this thread
is not to use kitchen utensils for chemistry.
And, if you do use kitchen utensils for chemistry,
please by all means thoroughly clean them before
using them again for anything food related.
And before you start mouthing off in regards to
my methods, just try making what I make some time
and getting it right. If you ever bother to try that,
that will serve to quiet you up real good!
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because it is dressed in overalls and it
looks like work" T.A. Edison
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