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What Precautions when using dry ingredients?

Silica

Silica
is ever present in clay materials. Repeated inhalation will cause potentially fatal silicosis, or 'potters' asthma', a form emphysema. The molecule (especially when fired) has a 'hook' which attaches itself to the lung wall and accumulates and irritates.

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