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Most recently researchers have discovered that nano-particle sized zinc oxide, commonly found in cosmetics and sunscreens, may cause cancer by entering human cells and damaging DNA.
Hillary Peterson: Nanoparticles: Assessing Your Health Risk and Why You Should Care Hillary Peterson 2011
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These people have spent years developing a proprietary non-toxic nano-particle formula that breaks the bond between oil and the soils, rock, or water that it is mixed with, or stuck too.
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Gold nano-particle based technologies are showing great promise in providing solutions to a number of environmentally important issues from greener production methods of chemical feed-stocks, to countering pollution and water purification.
DK Matai: Nano-Gold Revolution: Alchemy of the 21st Century? 2010
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These people have spent years developing a proprietary non-toxic nano-particle formula that breaks the bond between oil and the soils, rock, or water that it is mixed with, or stuck too.
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Gold nano-particle based technologies are showing great promise in providing solutions to a number of environmentally important issues from greener production methods of chemical feed-stocks, to countering pollution and water purification.
DK Matai: Nano-Gold Revolution: Alchemy of The 21st Century? 2010
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American Biotech Labs has developed a patented process for multivalent nano-particle metallic silver solutions that have gone through extensive independent laboratory testing showing they are extremely effective, safe, and very stable for long term storage.
Matthew Stein: When a Superbug Strikes Close to Home, How Can You Deal With it? 2009
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The plutonium, once dispersed, will be in nano-particle sizes that are PERFECT for lodging PERMANENTLY in your lungs.
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Mr. McGuire was familiar with BIND's nano-particle technology to treat tumors and heart disease.
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Further, a recent study indicates that argyria can only result from the consumption of ionic forms of silver, not from metallic silver or metallic silver nano-particle products.
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Still, consider that just one invisible sub-micron size nano-particle we inhale that becomes lodged in our lung can stay there for decades, wrecking havoc on our bodies, causing cell death, mutation, and disease in the years to follow.www. mytown.ca/garger
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