you manufacture anthrax? that's like saying you manufacture dogs. anthrax is a living thing
Well, correcting myself I manufacture art with glass very often, I have pounds of remnants from the glass cutting room which I haven't found a use for yet. Honestly, I'd probably be better off just splitting the case and walnut blasting it, it'd be more green and safer on myself and my immediate environment.
Well I would have to retitle the entire thread, so I'll edit the top post with a more precise definition as to what I'm doing here to prevent any future confusion. I'm talking about the cutaneous glass delivery system commonly attributed to Anthrax, I always thought the spores causing damage were microscopic glass, however after looking into the etymology you're entirely right.
I'm more than glad to be corrected if I'm wildly wrong, I blame the Mandela Effect. ^_^
But really, what I'm talking about then is polymerized glass, I somehow thought it was due to the microscopic size of particulates that it was defined as a chemical neurotoxin!
My goal isn't to genetically modify my pony to be a catalyst for botulism, I just want to polish on a microscopic level with glass powders.
Reading more into it, Anthrax even contains silica organically as a part of its natural compound? Very interesting stuff - I always figured it was just point blank powdered glass, for like a decade! Thanks for bringing some major information to the table, I'm certainly not talking about harvesting silicas from anthrax for the purposes of polishing, which to the supereducated would be very confusing.
I guess I'm used to calling things by their most copius ingredient generically rather than the most active ingredient, I figured they added poisons to the powderized glass known as anthrax - not that they added powderized glass to anthrax sporeganisms.
A quote from a really big document:
Silica has been a staple in professionally engineered germ warfare powders for decades. (The Soviet Union added to its powders resin and a silica dust called Aerosil —a formulation requiring high heat to create nanoparticles, says Alibek. U.S. labs have tested an Aerosil variant called Cab-O-Sil, and declassified U.S. intelligence reports state that Iraq’s chemical and biological warfare labs imported tons of both Cab-O-Sil and Aerosil, also known as “solid smoke,” in the 1980s). “If there’s polymerized glass [in the Senate samples], it really narrows the field [of possible suspects],” says Jacobsen, who has been following the anthrax investigations keenly. “Polymerized glasses are exotic materials, and nanotechnology is something you just don’t do in your basement.”