Quote Originally Posted by Feign View Post
The way you're explaining it makes it sound easy... But I assume it's very much not.

If the catalyst and oil are both non-toxic, would there be a likelihood of the end result being food-safe? Or does the polymerization process tend to make the result more toxic?
I'm kind of weird like that, but I'm not interested in a project unless it is tricky...so that probably explains this obsession. In general if the monomer is non-toxic the polymer should be no? It's alot harder to digest anyways so it probably passes through you. I'm pretty sure it is bio-degradeable from what I read but I'm too lazy to look up a reference. If I actually can polymerize flax oil into linoleum with a non-toxic catalyst I'll be so glad I'll eat some myself! :-)