Is iron oxide powder safe?
Iron Oxide can affect you when breathed in. Exposure to Iron Oxide fumes can cause metal fume fever. This is a flu-like illness with symptoms of metallic taste, fever and chills, aches, chest tightness and cough. * Prolonged or repeated contact can discolour the eyes causing permanent Iron staining. Rust is the common name for a ubiquitous compound, iron oxide. Iron oxide, the chemical Fe2O3, is common because iron combines very readily with oxygen -- so readily that pure iron is only rarely fou