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[Carota]

Has anyone tryed to snort C60? like somebody do at parties with drugs? can it be done? how would it work? or is it only possible to get it in liquid form?

[niner]

Huge Error. It would be dangerous to inhale insoluble particulates. It's not psychoactive in any way, despite the occasional placebo effect reports. It isn't fun. Healthy people don't feel anything at all from it. It's possible to get C60 in solid form, but that's not the same thing as c60-oo. It's a completely different molecule. C60-oo is only available in a solution in olive oil, although in principle it could be purified and crystallized. That would be a non-trivial undertaking, however.

[GVA]

Huge Error. It would be dangerous to inhale insoluble particulates. It's not psychoactive in any way, despite the occasional placebo effect reports. It isn't fun. Healthy people don't feel anything at all from it. It's possible to get C60 in solid form, but that's not the same thing as c60-oo. It's a completely different molecule. C60-oo is only available in a solution in olive oil, although in principle it could be purified and crystallized. That would be a non-trivial undertaking, however.

Is it error or not? Is it dangerous or not? This is big question!
But, naturally, here we cannot and should not recommend something and for someone! But ....
FYI, please see the following links:

1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl0710710 .
Christie M. Sayes et al., Comparative Pulmonary Toxicity Assessments of C60 Water Suspensions in Rats: Few Differences in Fullerene Toxicity in Vivo in Contrast to in Vitro Profiles. (...pulmonary exposures to quartz (SiO2, "sand") particles in rats produced dose-dependent lung inflammatory responses characterized by neutrophils and foamy lipid-containing alveolar macrophage accumulation as well as evidence of early lung tissue thickening consistent with the development of pulmonary fibrosis. The results demonstrated little or no difference in lung toxicity effects between the two (C60) fullerene samples when compared to controls ("water instilled controls"), and these data are not consistent with the previously reported in vitro effects..). Nano Lett., 7 (8), (2007) 2399–2406.

2. http://dx.doi.org/10...378.2011.580386 .
Ogami A, et al., Pathological features of rat lung following inhalation and intratracheal instillation of C(60) fullerene. ("...results support our previous studies that showed C60 has no significant adverse effects in intratracheal and inhalation instillation studies") Inhal. Toxicol., 23(7) (2011) 407.

3. http://www.particleandfibretoxicology.com/content/6/1/2.
Nicklas Raun Jacobsen et al., Lung inflammation and genotoxicity following pulmonary exposure to nanoparticles in ApoE-/- mice. Particle and Fibre Toxicology 2009, 6:2.

4. (http://dx.doi.org/10...6/1743-8977-7-4 ).
Yasuo Morimoto et al., Inflammogenic effect of well-characterized fullerenes in inhalation and intratracheal instillation studies. Particle and Fibre Toxicology 2010, 7:4.

And that "Pure fullerenes are no more dangerous than regular sand" it can be possible to see on http://www.ipacom.com/images/Articles/c60_fullerene_is_not_more_dangerous_than_usual_sand_ru.pdf (sorry, but for a while, only on Russ).
SMIE

[Mind]

Sounds like a dumb idea to me, studies or not.

[Hebbeh]

Coal miners black lung disease comes to mind.