> pat splat wrote:
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> > Kevin Hurt wrote:
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> > I got this but haven’t tried it yet. It says lead free, WHAT THE
> Actually lead is bad stuff, woulnd say cancer but mental health,
> especially toxic in small ingestible quantities, potable pipe ...
Exposure to lead causes brain/nerve damage, and cardiovascular problems.
They used to make toys out of lead! It's got a very low melting point, one can almost melt it with a candle flame and it was easily molded, it DID make the best solder; however the toxicity was not widely understood till contemporary times. Most plumbing used lead pipes as recently as 100 years ago, and lead solder was used in plumbing even more recently. Note that our English word "plumbing" comes from the Roman/Latin for "lead" - plumbum.
Just because it doesn't immediately kill everyone who touches it though, still doesn't mean it's not toxic. It takes years to cause health problems. Another example is asbestos, which most of the time takes several decades to cause cancer - it even has a specific cancer that is called 'mesothelioma' - which is only caused by exposure to asbestos. Lead causes more than one health problem, but all these are a delayed reaction to exposure which take years to appear.