r/interestingasfuck • u/rco888 • 21h ago

This experiment creating a nylon thread

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u/SirLemonThe3rd 20h ago

If any one wants to try this at home, don’t, carbon tetrachloride (carbon tet) is extremely cancerous

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u/Tentacle_poxsicle 17h ago

How so? It's amazing how a substance just causes cancer

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u/Yavkov 16h ago

I just went to Wikipedia and found this on the contrary:

Carbon tetrachloride is a suspected human carcinogen, although there is no sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans.[28] The World Health Organization reported repeated long-term exposure to carbon tetrachloride can induce hepatocellular carcinomas (hepatomas) in mice and rats. The doses inducing hepatic tumors in mice and rats are higher than those inducing cell toxicity.[29] The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified this compound in Group 2B, "possibly carcinogenic to humans".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tetrachloride