On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:51:14 GMT, Jim Polaski
wrote:

Talc is hazardous because if you get a quantity of it in the air, mixed
with oxygen, it can be an explosive mixture!

Like hell it can.

It's a fecking silicate ! It's already about as "burned" as you're
going to get it.

Don't tell me - if the dust collector happens to suck it up, static
electricity could discharge and blow the whole workshop up !