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OutOfHereyesterday at 11:20 PM1 replyview on HN

It's most definitely going to accumulate inside the body, although slowly.


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terminalshorttoday at 2:08 AM

Yes, but too slowly to matter. Average person consumes 1.5 liters per day of water, so if you live to 100 that's 55000 liters. At 1 ppt that's 1 ng / liter, or 55 ug over a lifetime. That's multiple orders of magnitude less than one drop of the stuff to your eye.

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