Gebräuchliche Silikone aus Motoröl und Kosmetika kommen weitaus häufiger in der Atmosphäre vor als erwartet und machen bis zu 4,3 % der organischen Aerosolmasse aus. Dieser stabile Schadstoff ist mittlerweile in der städtischen und ländlichen Luft allgegenwärtig und kann sowohl die menschliche Gesundheit als auch die Wolkenbildung beeinträchtigen.
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/26/5005/2026/
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My gut reaction was to think, so what it’s just dust?
And then obviously I thought about it for 2 more seconds and knew that anything is a problem if there’s too much of it. So I found this section:
>The potential health impacts of large molecular methylsiloxanes remain largely unknown and call for further investigation. Here, we provide a preliminary assessment of human exposure through inhalation, estimating the intake of aerosol-bound methylsiloxanes across different environments as a basis for future toxicological studies.
And yeah, I agree, we need to study this so we can understand the risk, specifically to people with disabilities that affect breathing like asthma and cysic fibrosis.
People don’t know it but car tires and brakes get aerosolized and the particulates are very bad for health but tragically understudied.
Apparently brake dust from airplanes is notoriously bad so living near an airport is cause for concern.
We have too much toxins in the air. It’s enraging to me that we have a federal government that attacks its own organization that tries to make breathing clean air normal.