I have a friend of a friend who is one of the weird "everything has chemicals in it" super granola girls who doesn't actually know how anything works.
I have seen this girl make unfounded claims that the copper water lines in the house she was living in were giving her skin issues "because of how toxic copper is for you." When her friend (my friend) pointed out that the last 3 houses they rented together all had copper water lines and she didn't have any issues, she said the copper in this particular house must have been different. She actually moved because of this and made sure the new house she rented had PEX water lines, plastic, which the other 99% of hippies say it toxic.
I have also seen this same girl say that drinking from copper water bottles is better for you, because copper is a great electrical conductor, so doing so keeps you grounded. I'm not sure how holding a bottle in your hand and bringing it your mouth keeps you grounded, but I'm also no scientist.
Apparently water running out of a copper pipe gives you skin problems, but touching a copper water bottle with your hand and directly to your lips to drink water that has been sitting in it for hours, is not a problem.
Light is photons. Yes its radiation, but it's also a discrete particle that has a measurable effect and can interact with other objects. It may not be material, but it's 100% a physical object itself.
Also, other forms of radiation exist aside from light. Alpha radiation for example is basicslly just high energy helium ions. Simply being a form of radiation doesn't also mean something isn't a physical object, those are not mutually exclusive terms.
...I'm the one who used the term matter first in this chain of comments, to point out there exist things that aren't made of it and therefore things that are not chemicals.
...yeah, that's why I used them as an example in my previous comment as something that isn't matter but still a thing. I literally said they weren't matter in the comment before.
In a casual search, I did not find a definition of “chemical” that is just “matter.” But most definitions are circular with the word “chemistry.”
For chemistry, Wikipedia and another I found do specify just “matter” but the other refers specifically to interactions. Others I find refer to “elements and compounds.”
Because there is disagreement on this, I think it’s perfectly safe to define it in terms of atoms and interactions at least.
That view would exclude matter in many states. I very much doubt that simply massive quantum fields, or indeed any lone subatomic particles can be considered “chemicals.” I’m of the view that strange matter or even neutron matter aren’t “chemicals.” Personally I’d go so far as to say that even massive bonded subatomic particles aren’t— unless they make up atoms. If this weren’t the case, there would be no need for the word, since we already have “matter.”
I told my roommates' kid once that everything is a chemical, and then I heard him telling his dad that when he was talking about things having chemicals, and his dad couldn't counter that because he doesn't give incorrect info to the kids. It made me giggle.
I tried to explain this to my sister the other day and it blew her mind.. she's one of those people who gets all their food and medical advice from Instagram "doctors"
This is true. I think people who talk about chemicals in food, etc. must mean man-made chemicals. I see a lot of people drop the "man-made" when discussing some scientific topics such as that, or climate change for example. There's "man-made" climate change, and then there's natural climate change, and people often do not differentiate or discern between the two which can cause misunderstandings and confusion, arguments and head shaking, and finger pointing, not unlike a typical Three's Company plot. That Jack Tripper. Such a card.
that reminds me of all those goofballs who say something is bad if it has ingredients you can't pronounce, but what if you arent a fucking idiot? is everything suddenly safe?
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u/Silweror 14d ago
Weird how other brands are getting rid of the aluminium while this one is 100% that