20 Most Dangerous Minerals in The World

Rock is deadly then it hits you 🤧 ufeel no pain 😮

These are not rocks they are mineral
By hank of breaking bad

Chalkantite (CuSO4.5H2O) is NOT dangerous matter

Cinabar (HgS) is NOT dangerous matter

is yooperlite toxic?

Hey that’s my video about Torbernite!

African, or “Blue” asbestos is called Crocidolite and pronounced Kraw-SID-o-light, not like crocodile. Chrysolite is pronounced Kross-SID-o-light.

Asbestos itself is not toxic. In fact the inert qualities of asbestos is what makes it so useful: it doesn’t chemically react with other elements except in the very high pressure and very long time duration of geological processes. (Also structurally useful in the macroscopic world because of its fibrous nature—good for physically reinforcing various plastic substances like cement and plaster.)

The health hazards of all kinds of asbestos were recognized by Ancient Greek historians who noticed weavers of asbestos fibres (for metal-smiths’ and glass-makers’ gloves and aprons— and don’t forge: in those days one inherited one’s vocation from one’s father and worked at it (usually in the domestic home) for one’s entire lifetime) did not live very long because of a then-mysterious lung ailment they called asbestosis. Asbestosis is not a disease in and of itself, rather it is a syndrome caused by asbestos fibres lodged in the lungs (it can also affect the digestive and urinary tracts) that might include one or more distinctive diseases—from bronchitis, pneumonias and cancers. If facilitated by asbestos, it’s called asbestosis.

What makes ingesting asbestos dangerous—and inhaling is the most dangerous—is the fact that all asbestos fibres have two sharp ends, both at an identical and acutely sharp crystalline angle of fracture. It’s the same sharp angle no matter how small the crystal is fractured. “Friable” asbestos is that which freely sheds asbestos fibres when disturbed by friction, vibration, or the chemical dissolution of the substance into which the asbestos has been added, releasing the fibres into the air. Asbestos crystals can be fractured down to such a small, microscopic size that individual crystalline fibres float in the air for a long time, behaving almost like a gas at the smallest fraction. In a calm enclosed room, 8-foot ceiling, filled with air mixed with the smallest crystals of friable asbestos, the crystals settle downwards at a rate no faster than one foot per hour. Disturbing asbestos in a home—say, by cutting asbestos hardboard with an electric circular saw indoors—will contaminate the entire house as easily as gases, smoke or other fumes.

When asbestos fibres are inhaled, some will be exhaled but some will stick to the moist surfaces inside the respiratory tract where, with the motions of breathing and moving around, the two sharp ends of the fibres can stitch themselves into the living tissue, each fibre punching two small holes in the tissue as the fibre is moved back and forth; as the tissue tries to repair these small holes, scar tissue traps the fibre in situ where it continues to work, back and forth, refreshing the two wounds each time, becoming permanently fixed in the lung tissue. It is these continuously cleared, or re-wounded holes through which viruses, pollen, fungal spores, bacteria, and carcinogenic can lodge within the tissue. This is why various lung cancers are associated with asbestosis. But, again, the syndrome might just as well manifest in, say, chronic bronchitis or allergic aspergillosis.

The longer the exposer to friable asbestos, the greater the risk of developing one of a number of lung diseases (asbestos in drinking water can also facilitate bladder diseases). Virtually everyone in the modern world has asbestos fibres lodged in their lungs from car brake- and clutch-pads (sacrificial friction plates) which release friable asbestos fibres into the air (asbestos tapes for domestic and public-building heating ducts, asbestos gaskets around wood stove doors, and destructive release of asbestos’s from a number of building materials like linoleum, drywall, &c—make up another source) but the syndrome, most often manifest as mesothelioma, or cancer in the lung lining, is most often associated with workers who manufacture asbestos products (piping, hardboard, and raw, powdered asbestos for mixing with plasters, cements and grouts) who are at greatest risk—by far—because of continuous heavy exposure, five days a week for many years.

Smokers are worst affected because their cilia, or small ‘hairs’ in the lung’s airways, are continually killed by tobacco smoke and can’t, therefore, convey inhaled contaminants out of the lungs (smokers cough instead). Some of the contaminants cilia convey out of the lungs might be asbestos, as well as other, possibly injurious substances like carcinogens. Smokers have virtually no functioning cilia so the odds of asbestos fibres becoming lodged in the lungs is very much greater than it is for nonsmokers. And, because lodged asbestos abrades holes through which disease agents like nicotine and tar can penetrate deep into lung tissue, smokers who are regularly exposed to friable asbestos are at very much higher risk of developing lung disease, especially the always-terminal mesothelioma. Remember: a given particle inhaled into the lungs of a nonsmoker takes, on average, about a day and a half to be expectorated—but, in a smoker, it takes, on a average, a month and a half—thus vastly increasing the risk of developing both asbestosis and any number of disease agents into lung tissue.

Crocidolite, or “blue asbestos” is the most dangerous kind. Its crystals are robust, very sharp and very friable into microscopic fractions. (I was in the abatement industry when we inspected a Canadian government Fisheries and Oceans ship for removal of crocidolite insulation applied to virtually every surface and covered with encapsulation, or thick, nonporous paint. The captain told us he researched the history of the ship when he was hired on: in the 18 years since the ship was insulated, every single worker who was on the insulation job was dead—dozens of them, some in their 20s, meaning they probably never reached retirement age before dying. The stuff’s so dangerous that our normal full-face, powered filter-respirators were not allowed—supplied air only—with the deep sea diver’s helmet, long air-hoses and everything. Just getting workers in and out of the enclosure safely was a major cost—five times a day. We declined to tender a bid.)

Canada was a major, world supplier of mined and processed asbestos. It was banned for new builds in Canada in 1974, but was exported for decades afterwards, usually to countries with lax safety regs. (A news-journalism TV program showed how bails of Canadian asbestos were mishandled by stevedores and applicators in India: workers literally wading through loose, friable asbestos with absolutely no safety gear at all! The political uproar the show caused was the death-knell for Canada’s dying asbestos industry.) Nevertheless, many Canadian buildings older than 1974 still contain asbestos and, as a consequence, asbestosis now presents mainly among workers in the building-maintenance or -demolition industry. A consultant is advisable before embarking on major refits or demolition of older buildings: asbestos can be in so many materials that it’s truly boggling. (We did abatement at a Canadian Forces Base barracks block were virtually everything except the foundation, the wooden lumber framing, and the wooden subfloor had asbestos in it: built during WWII, the building had the then-relatively novel product of drywall—gypsum hardboard—on walls and ceilings, a sticker on the back of each panel proudly advertising that “this product contains nothing but the purest Canadian asbestos” with an illustration of the ‘typical Canadian family’. )

Thing about asbestos is that there are many alternatives to the many different applications it might be used for—but there isn’t any alternative that does ALL of those things like asbestos.

Be safe, my friends.

I hate you for the beginning.

This is all absolute nonsense. I have every single one of these minerals in my collection, and have had some of them in my possession for over 40 years. No ill effects. Grinding almost anything & inhaling the dust can make you ill, as can dissolving things in strong acids and inhaling the fumes or drinking the solution.

However, just keeping some minerals on a shelf or in a drawer will NOT make you sick, let alone kill you.

Really had no idea that asbestos came from not just one, but a variety of rocks, amazing indeed...

WHAT?! I love cinnabar scrolls!! I eat them every day and I ain't dead yet!!😅

The people who mostly faced the danger of quarz dust, where masons/stonecarvers, who either worked (and still work) sandstone or granite, especially sandstone is just compressed and glued together quarzdust, it eats your tools and your lungs. Quarz is also in quarzite, another hard and durable material in stonemasonery, same dangers though.

I think my brain is thinking when the video said 20 most dangerous minecraft in the world.

Les peirres ont toujours été utilisées pour guérir et non pas l'inverse, demandez aux tibétain, par exemple.

I'm sorry, FINGER IT?

Why so good

Vermillion isn't even on the list of "dangerous" pigments in the EU and copper sulfate is something I give my kids to experiment with. Copper sulfate solution allowed even in organic farming...

"Woo another rock with delicious arsenic" 😂😂😂😂😂

you rely on tricks to get views how shameful




deep down you know

When they first found Asbestos, the Miners made all kinds of things out of it. Chairs, jars, tables to furnish their home.

I have pyrite at home😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

The dude had his hand covered with the copper sulphite you said was so deadly!!!

My mom used to say, " You'd have to consume A LOT for it to harm you.
SMH

Well I had cave baham type of affect I called it universal key component of a shrink ray

Why is pyrite dangerous though? Cause it makes sparks???

I was literally thinking about making a Quartz D20 yesterday.... Guess I'm not doing that.

“All you Americans” he says with a perfect American accent.

Particularly peculiar presentation.

Asbestos is safe in building as long as you are not tearing it down. So walking into places that have it built in wont harm you.

Thallium is not a compound, it’s an element.

Asbestos is only legally used in the composition of materials, not legal to be used in its raw form .

My grandma's perfume bottle of Cinnabar was deadly as catching my grandpa.

Well this certainly has me thinking twice. Thx for the heads-up

Fluoride is definitely one rock you do not want to put in your mouth. And yet it's in the Govern Mental water...
They tell ya it's good for your teeth. Google Fluorosis and select "images"... It's demonstrably false.

Gold the world worships it the idolatry of it will steel your soul hAs made people turned into slaves the annunaki have mined it since the beginning of time.

So what’s the issue making pyrite dangerous? You didn’t say.

nope, asbestos has been mostly banned in the US, it can still get here, but it has had a partial ban put on it in '89

Thanks for giving education for people in the world. Gbu

Greetings from the BIG SKY.

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Everything is going to kill you. If you let it make you eat bad food, why are you alive anyway? We all die and a few rocks sand minerals never hurt. Well, most...

I've lived in Hot Springs, AR and quartz mining or owning it is about as dangerous as Big Mac's... Way less...

Like eating uranium or burning rocks that explode. Imagine that.

What exactly is it that is dangerous about Iron Pyrite?

how can i avoid feldspar when the granite here mostly consists of it

White lung cancer is still not enough to stop the uses of asbestos. Mesothelioma aka white lung cancer. My grandfather died of this exposure to asbestos in the shipyards of ww2

And meth rocks!