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- From: drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand)
- Subject: Re: Deodorants Harmful?
- In-Reply-To: brian@ucsd.edu's message of 29 Dec 1992 16:47:53 GMT
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- In article <1hpvfpINN1gb@network.ucsd.edu> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
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- There is no aluminum in ordinary solder. Solder is a mixture of lead
- and tin, with occasionally small amounts of other materials (copper,
- silver, etc) incorporated to alter the working properties of the solder.
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- Of course lead and tin can contain contaminants such as cadmium,
- arsenic, and the like, and the less-critical solders such as those used
- in plumbing will not have the high purity of precision electronic solders.
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- Not precisely correct. Plumbing solder, at least in Mass, is
- virtually pure tin, lead being banned for use in soldering
- water feed pipes.
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