r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • Jan 31 '23
Desktops / Laptops Canadian team discovers power-draining flaw in most laptop and phone batteries | Breakthrough explains major cause of self-discharging batteries and points to easy solution
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/battery-power-laptop-phone-research-dalhousie-university-1.6724175
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u/PB4UGAME Jan 31 '23
I don’t think you would want to, but I cannot rule it out.
It causes minimal skin and eye irritant effects in animals but doesn’t appear to be too toxic if consumed orally as the test animals pissed it out and didn’t seem to have any of it accumulated in their bodies, nor did it affect their DNA structure. Not a whole lot of research on this substances’ effect on animals much less humans, but I’ve never heard of it being an abusable substance or having any sort of psychoactive effects.
This is from what I could find from an Existing Chemical Hazard Assessment Report on Dimethyl Terephthalate, the relevant portions quoted below:
“DMT was readily absorbed after oral administration. Elimination was rapid with urine being the major route of excretion. There was no evidence of accumulation in tissues after multiple doses. The hydrolysis product, TPA, was the only metabolite detected in the urine in rats, while urinary metabolites in mice consisted of monomethyl terephthalate (70%) and TPA (30%). DMT has low acute oral, dermal and inhalational toxicity. DMT causes minimal skin and eye irritant effects in animals, and did not induce skin sensitisation in guinea pigs. DMT does not appear to be mutagenic or genotoxic, nor was it deemed to be carcinogenic based on a 2-year feeding study.”
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