Wood-Look (Gray-ish) Ceramic Tile: Lead Free (Cadmium Free, Arsenic Free too)
2019 | Ceramic Tile | Ceramics | Elise_S | Tile | XRF Testing | XRFTesting
When tested with an XRF instrument the tiles pictured here had the following readings:
Glazed surface of the tile:
- Barium (Ba): 162 +/- 55 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 950 +/- 94 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 10,600 +/- 400 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 120 +/- 43 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 230 +/- 77 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 1,825 +/-217 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 202 +/- 36 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 571 +/- 66 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 4,268 +/- 126 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 963 +/- 133 ppm
Back (unglazed) side of the tile:
- Barium (Ba): 85 +/- 41 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 115 +/- 22 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 5,329 +/- 302 ppm
- Bismuth (Bi): 24 +/- 10 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 167 +/- 35 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 2,074 +/- 118 ppm
- Platinum (Pt): 75 +/- 35 ppm
Metals not detected are not listed. Tests were done for a minimum of 60 seconds each to confirm the reading. Results are science-based and replicable and conducted with a Niton XL3T XRF in “Consumer Goods” mode.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you for reading and for sharing my posts.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
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Greetings, I’m new to your site (my wife is not) and am not familiar how to navigate here. What is the name / brand of this particular tile? Thanks.
Hi Steven,
I don’t have that information – sorry. Sometimes people don’t include that when they send me samples, but I post them anyway in case someone has something similar (as a potential point of comparison.)
Here’s how the testing on my site works: https://tamararubin.com/2017/07/subscribe-in-support-of-my-advocacy-work-you-can-become-eligible-to-send-in-a-box-of-your-things-for-testing/
Tamara
Hello,
We have wood look ceramic tile. So, on these readings, is the chromium or any of the readings a health hazard?