Is exposure to lunar dust a long term health hazard for a future lunar base?
"PP" wrote in message
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| any of these kicked into 'dust storms' and then inhaled by
| unprotected human will definitely choke and, in most cases ,kill.
I tend to agree. I would expect lunar dust to have a high affinity for
moisture, making them adhere rather tenaciously to mucous membranes and
pulmonary linings. I would also expect it to be more apt to chemically bond
with tissue.
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