Agreed to not throw caution to the wind. However, making claims that are easily provably false for people with small amounts of experience in that field make this forum look bad.
The does makes the poison. I've worked around a chemist who had a hook for a hand. She blew her hand off with sodium azide powder. I'd never want to be around a bottle with 50 g of it in powder. However, a bit of azide to keep microbial growth down in a 1 mL solution is not a big deal. But yes, caution is cheap and there is no reason to take the risk. Use PPE.
Agreed to not throw caution to the wind. However, making claims that are easily provably false for people with small amounts of experience in that field make this forum look bad.
The does makes the poison. I've worked around a chemist who had a hook for a hand. She blew her hand off with sodium azide powder. I'd never want to be around a bottle with 50 g of it in powder. However, a bit of azide to keep microbial growth down in a 1 mL solution is not a big deal. But yes, caution is cheap and there is no reason to take the risk. Use PPE.