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by Isamu 2701 days ago
>Unless you ingest it

Right. Typically painters of my acquaintance e.g. in college had paint all over their clothes and hands, and then they would smoke or eat a snack, transferring traces to their lips.

Cadmium sulfide is maybe not nearly as bad as elemental Cadmium, which is horrible.

All I am saying is please be careful, be safe.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/05/08/th...

“... this is one of those metals that’s best avoided for life. It has acute toxic effects, chronic toxic effects, and if there are any effects in between those it probably has them, too. Fortunately, cadmium is not well absorbed from the gut...”