justinhcase said:
As a rime one of my instructors told me go's"the solution to pollution is dilution"
Thanks for showing concern I have only rinsed 5 or so oz of Au and only have 200g of 9 ct in hand to run through at the moment so the volume is not to great.
The "the solution to pollution is dilution" is only true to a point
Example - smoking cigarettes in a house (& refining works very much the same way) --- lets start with a brand new house with that nice brand new house smell - smoke one cigarette in it - for the next few hours you can detect that a cigarette has been smoked in it - as time passes (a day or two) it becomes so dilute it can no longer be detected - BUT - the tar & nicotine has still settled on surfaces that the smoke touched - its just to dilute to detect --- & over time - if you never smoke in the house again it will continue to dilute to the point of being gone
Now smoke one cigarette in that same house every day for a week - each day the tar & nicotine accumulates on surfaces with the tar & nicotine from the one cigarette smoked each previous day - at the end of a week stop smoking - it now wont be just a day before the tar & nicotine (which has accumulated on surfaces) dilutes to the point of being undetectable - it will take a couple of months - AND - even then its not gone - its just more dilute
Now - smoke a pack a day for one year in that house - so much tar & nicotine is going to accumulate & build up that the entire house has become contaminated (even if you only smoked in one room - like the basement) the tar & nicotine has now got into your heating & air system - building up there & is now moving the contamination through out the house - & though it becomes dilute as it moves from the place/source it is being created to the rest of the house - it does not change the fact that each time you smoke a cigarette you are slowly but surely
accumulating & building up the toxins of tar & nicotine on EVERY surface in your home - to the point that
over time you have contaminated you whole house
So its not that each cigarette in & of its self contaminates the house - its the accumulation over time from each cigarette that builds up to a contaminated house
Fumes from running a furnace &/or fumes from small or low level reactions &/or just opening or having open containers of chems do exactly the same thing - they settle on surfaces where they accumulate & build up & soon what started as dilute becomes less & less & less dilute - equals more & more & more polluted
So saying --- "and only have 200g of 9 ct in hand to run through at the moment so the volume is not to great" --- that's not the problem - the problem is this being added to what has been done before & any future processing added to that
You can not avoid the slow but sure build up of toxins from doing this - unless you set up your work area as its own environment under negative air pressure
Kurt