--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Tapio Linkosalo <tapio.linkosalo@...> wrote:
> I do not think there is any mechanism for the body to "recognize"
> foreign particles; if you compare the boron splinter to a wooden one it is just that the wood is so covered in bacteria>>
Agreed, the body doesn't say "oh, it's boron this time." I was merely repeating common knowledge that the body tries to reject/oppose some substances but not others. If the mechanism is bacteria, I'm happy for that. Skin grows outward in treadmill fashion, so I believe that was the effective mechanism to get rid of the boron I described. Splinter was partially removed with needle, but broke off deep in skin, then easily accessed a few months later. Was trying to contrast with the old indoor lore that boron can migrate through the body.
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> Then again, I cannot figure out a mechanism that would drive a boron splinter into you body from finger or foot palm (unless it was in a position where stepping on it would push it in little by little)>>
194 lbs of animated human stepping forward and/or down upon boron splinter in carpet--very effective mechanism, with no "little by little" involved. Guess I could wear shoes, but (really) I prefer to find errant boron this way than to worry about anyone else in the future finding it in similar way.
>> Then again, what difference would it make?>>
Is there any carbon that weighs very close to 1/2 mg per inch including attachment glue weight?
<<Never heard of such thing, but I'm convinced that if such thing was on the agenda, there would have been discussion last summer in Belgrade.
Which there was none.>>
Thanks, Tapio. Good news for the current tradition.
MB
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