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Originally Posted by Electronic M
Also IIRC some microwave tubes contain gases that are EXTREMELY toxic to inhale (as in if you break it open, RUN).
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It's not so much the gasses, it's the beryllium oxide that they use to make those lovely pink ceramic insulators. That stuff is particularly carcinogenic and is just like asbestos in that it wedges in your lungs and doesn't ever leave. (but is relatively harmless if left undisturbed)
Don't breathe this!