• There’s one trick you should be doing to keep your workspace safer when 3D printing. • It’s now well-known that FFF 3D printers tend to produce atmospheric pollutants. • There are two forms: nanoparticles, which are simply very tiny bits of the material; and VOCs, which are volatile organic compounds, some of which are toxic. • Where do these come from? • It’s all from the heat. • Normally, the filament material is quite stable, but in the process of being heated while passing through the hot end, both nanoparticles and VOCs are generated.

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  • There’s one trick you should be doing to keep your workspace safer when 3D printing. It’s now well-known that FFF 3D printers tend to produce atmospheric pollutants. There are two forms: nanoparticles, which are simply very tiny bits of the material; and VOCs, which are volatile organic compounds, some of which are toxic. Where do these come from? It’s all from the heat. Normally, the filament material is quite stable, but in the process of being heated while passing through the hot end, both nanoparticles and VOCs are generated. How much is generated? That depends on a couple of factors. The

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