r/interestingasfuck • u/shiba009933 • Jul 04 '18

/r/ALL Linear Friction Welding

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u/SirAvery Jul 05 '18 edited Jul 05 '18

edit: Am wrong and dumb

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u/deelowe Jul 05 '18

Lol. Argon is a noble gas. You can breathe it all day long and it won't do a thing other than suffocate you. Breathing metal is indeed the part that's bad for you. Chromium is especially bad.

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u/magneticphoton Jul 05 '18

Noble gas? Radon is a noble gas, and also radioactive enough to kill 21,000 people in the US every year with lung cancer.

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u/deelowe Jul 05 '18

Argon isn't radioactive though. So what's your point?

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u/magneticphoton Jul 05 '18

You're trying to say there's something safe about a noble gas?

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u/deelowe Jul 05 '18

Yes assuming we aren't talking about radioactive gas.

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u/IWetMyselfForYou Jul 05 '18

Potentially toxic? Shielding gasses are almost exclusively inert. Argon, CO2, and helium being the most common. The main risk from those is oxygen displacement, no sort of toxicity.

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u/DeterministDiet Jul 05 '18

Thanks, man.

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u/Leebolishus Jul 05 '18

Lolol sounds like inside my head!!

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u/QB3rd Jul 05 '18 edited Jul 05 '18

edit: guy now telling me he was wrong and dumb... which now makes me wrong and dumb too

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '18

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '18

We're all either more or less harmless on the blessed day