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Common Home Appliances Emit Trillions of Harmful Particles, Study Finds (sciencealert.com)
2 points by XzetaU8 62 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> these appliances emitted a high number of UFPs. The worst offender was a pop-up toaster, which without any bread inside it, gave off around 1.73 trillion UFPs per minute.

If my math is correct, that toaster is shedding about 0.6 mm^3 per minute of its heating coils.




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