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Title: Is scratch card coating bad?
Post by: rhade on 04/02/2009 13:15:00

Okay, dudes and dudesses, like most people I am worried about the environment. To that end, is the silver coating used on those damn scratch cards which are everywhere these days bad for it? What is the effect of all those little bits of silver floating around, after being scratched off? What about the production of it? And what is it made of, anyway?  

Title: Is scratch card coating bad?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 04/02/2009 22:26:45

I think they're usually made of latex...