On 17 Jul, 00:36, (Steve Firth) wrote:

yawn Tell it to someone who isn't a chemist.

"Environmentalists whinge about the toxicity [of chromium compounds]"

If you call this "whinging", then you ain't much of a chemist. There's
plenty of whinging out there, but caution around chromium isn't
unreasonable, no matter what the valency.


(I've had self-inflicted acute chromium poisoning myself, from plasma-
cutting stainless. I don't recommend it).