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Animats on June 24, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: A brief history of hardware epidemics

> As far as I am aware, the act of soldering does not produce any sort of lead vapor or particulate either.

Er, no. Look up hazards of soldering fumes.

nexttk on June 24, 2025 [–]

It's the flux / resin also found in the solder that causes that. At the typical soldering temperature of 400 °C, lead evaporates 10 million times slower than ice at -40 °C.

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