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		ashleyn on April 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Graphene Is Grown with the Same Band Gap as Silico... Quite a while even with mass-production figured out. Graphene is a horrendous carcinogen and environmental hazard.

haZard_OS on April 21, 2018 | [–]

There are many scenarios in which GFNs can be toxic, yes. I wouldn't make any blanket statements about them however.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4803243/#!po=0....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5088662/#!po=5....

talltimtom on April 21, 2018 | [–]

Neither of those things are issues. Your regular run of the mill pencil is filled with “multi-layer graphene” aka graphite.

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