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Sand is a forever chemical. Almost everything on earth is a forver chemical. And this is exactly what is triggering me. 'X has been found in y'. Yes, but can we please have one single good study that shows what the danger of that is? I think it's time for the microplast research to go beyond 'has been found in' stage.

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You lost me when you called a mineral a chemical.

A mineral is a chemical.

Sand is largely composed of silicon dioxide (SiO2), which is a chemical compound. Each grain of sand is a tiny crystal composed of atoms of silicon and oxygen bonded together. These grains are formed by geological processes over long periods. While "sand" is a term for particle size rather than composition, its main constituent, especially in quartz sand, is indeed a chemical substance.

I expected this kind of reply.

By your reasoning we can just call anything chemicals, as all physical matter are a mixture of chemical elements.

Words matter. Sand is not a chemical.

All matter is made of chemicals.

Yeah. That's what I said.

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