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How Silica Gel Took Over the World

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225 points Hooke | 2 comments | 01 Apr 25 19:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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FridayoLeary ◴[01 Apr 25 20:26 UTC] No.43550963[source]▶
Why does it have the words DON'T EAT printed on every single package? you don't usually come across such warnings on other products.
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timerol ◴[01 Apr 25 20:29 UTC] No.43550996[source]▶
Your body likes having water inside of it, and doesn't like having glass shards inside of it
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1. lovecg ◴[01 Apr 25 20:35 UTC] No.43551060[source]▶
With millions and millions of those things around I’d guess quite a few get ingested accidentally and we don’t hear of them causing problems. It must be pretty safe (well as safe as eating a small amount of sand is).
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2. celticninja ◴[01 Apr 25 20:36 UTC] No.43551068[source]▶
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-186193...