What is the toxicity of elemental carbon?
Assuming 100% purity of the carbon, how much would it take to kill someone through oral consumption? What about through injection?
>>9110060
Probably about as much as it takes to kill someone by eating straight up coal. Which, I don't know if there's any historical data for. I hope not.
a large cylinder of carbon could choke you
>>9110066
Coal is mostly carbon, but also contains significant amounts of sulfur and traces of other, more potent toxins like mercury and arsenic. I assume those would kill you long before pure carbon would.
>>9110060
the atom itself obviously doesn't have adverse effects, but when built up into structures like nanotubes or graphene, it tends to cause a lot of damage to cells.
>>9110060
Carbon has virtually no toxicity, death from ingesting too much carbon would occur from it blocking up your innards, not from any innate toxicity.