Re: Selenium rectifiers in Tek equipment
stevenhorii
Having been told for years of the hazards of lead during soldering, I
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researched it a bit. As others have noted, the heat used for ordinary soldering is not high enough to produce lead fumes - well below the boiling point. This is just one example I found: https://eta-safety.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/Soldering%20Guidelines.pdf However, every reference I did find pointed out that the fluxes and rosin used during soldering are vaporized/oxidized by the heat of soldering and can be hazardous. Contact with lead is a problem because of inadvertent ingestion. My brother is an artist and would occasionally use lead-based pigments. He used to say that there was no non-lead white paint that had quite the same appearance as lead white when dry. He took extraordinary measures to avoid accidental ingestion - hand washing, keeping food out of the painting area in his studio, using separate brushes and palettes for any lead-containing paints, and mostly avoiding lead pigments almost all the time. Lead salts apparently have a sweet taste and is an explanation of why children will eat lead paint chips when they peel from or fall off of painted surfaces. So I was incorrect - you are not more likely to be exposed to lead from soldering as you are to selenium from bad selenium rectifiers. Selenium dioxide does smell terrible according to the various sources I checked and it does sublime. The supplement form of selenium is usually selenomethianine which also smells bad. Unless you are specifically told that you need to take a selenium supplement, I would suggest avoiding them. There are reported cases in the medical literature of selenium poisoning from taking too much selenium in supplements.
On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 04:59 Tom Gardner <tggzzz@gmail.com> wrote:
The process by which solids turn directly to vapour is called sublimation.
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