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Metal allergies common to body piercees
Title: Metal allergies common to body piercees
Category: Recreation & Sports / Health Care
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Metal allergies common to body piercees
On Gold What's so special about this gold stuff, anyway? I mean, it's expensive because it's rare but why do we use it in jewellery? Gold has a couple of fairly unique properties that have made it attractive to jewellers throughout history. Prime among these is its resistance to corrosion. The only chemical that can dissolve or even tarnish pure gold is 'royal water', a mixture so fiendish few of us are ever likely to …showed first 75 words of 1182 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1182 total…which don't contain anything that can dissolve into the body, but care should be taken with these since they can trigger your immune defense system in their own right, being (formerly) 'living' materials themselves.
Other metals Other metals, like chromium, trigger similar effects like nickel, but less strongly so, in most cases. However, many nickel-free alloys contain very high amounts of chromium instead and hence they, too, may release enough chromium to trigger 'allergic' reactions.
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