[TheForge] Auto darkening helmet

[James Binnion]

On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:

> This is the REAL downside to wearing wool as fire protection, the smoke 
> contains cyanide. This was pointed out on a smithing forum yakking about 
> this subject a few days ago. The upside is it takes a pretty serious 
> exposure to wool or hair smoke to be hazardous unless you're sensitive and 
> the smell is more than enough to clue you into taking care of the problem.

Yes so does tobacco smoke, and a whole list of other organic materials will produce it when incompletely combusted. It is one of the things that kills you in fatal cases of smoke inhalation.


James Binnion
jbin at well.com