Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00005)

Aluminum doesn't harm you. They use it to make soda cans now because
it is less reactive than Tin cans (tin cans would get that film on it
from oxidizing, and would make the soda taste funny).

Pure metal will not actually break off and leak into anything. It is
bound with unusually strong metallic bonds, formed by the free
exchange of electrons between the atoms. However, if there are
impurities in the cans, those can leak into the food. Nothing that
will kill you, though.

-Mark H.


On 9/1/05, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com> wrote:
> Cass Silva wrote:
> > I read many years ago that aluminium pans when heated cause aluminium
> > to enter the food, and that we can begin to overdose on aluminium.
> > They also took aluminium out of deodorants because it had a cancer
> > inducing effect.
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> They didn't take out aluminum. They took out hexachlorophine. There
> have been rumors of aluminum causing illness, but the evidence is
> generally "cherry picked" (meaning that samples which contradict the
> desired finding are deliberately ignored).
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Mark Hamilton Jr.
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