silicosis

Take a look at the whole stone countertop industry (very) slowly coming to terms with silicosis.

Cautionary tales that are not being learned where the similarly dreadful silicosis is concerned; there is an incredible increase in the number of cases of silicosis among kitchen fitters working on granite worktops.

I gather there are similar issues with the refining of silicon, in which silicon vapour can cause silicosis.

Then everything in the vicinity would get sprinkled with fine dust which you shouldn't inhale in large quantities, as it might cause silicosis.

Silica is similarly chemically inert, but silicosis is a devastating disease.

> The major concern is silicosis (lung disease), caused by the inhalation and retention of respirable crystalline silica dust.

I was thinking of heading off comments like yours by mentioning silicosis or lead poisoning but didn't want to clutter up a simple clarification.

Fine silicon dioxide particles can cause silicosis.

I also imagine that this reaction would probably be happening to some degree in your throat and lungs as well, rapidly giving you something like silicosis.

Now that I went looking, most of the literature focus on silicosis, and there aren't many long-term studies that can tell us if it's carcinogenic or not.

Some specializations are thousands of years old; tin mining in Cornwall supported much of the Bronze Age, and silicosis was already known as an occupational disease of potters in Classical times.

It's a dream of mine to learn enough stoneworking to turn a pair of stones from a local river into a mortar and pestle, ideally without contracting silicosis at the same time.

I don't think Silicosis is cancer as much as it's just "shredding your lungs" It's a horrifying disease and people in affected industries should always wear PPE and likely don't.

Silicosis is a hazard of doped SiO2 semiconductor manufacturing.

Silicosis, but also fine dust is toxic when ingested.

Silicosis causes cancer the same way a lot of things do: If you repeatedly damage cells over and over and over, that increases the likelihood that some of the DNA will be mis-copied, fail to be repaired, and survives the biological lottery to become a cancer cell.