Radioactivity indium in LCD display!!!

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I disassembled the LCD monitor and found films there that looked like transparent mirrors. I wanted to get some silver from there and I started googling "silver from LCD", "metals from LCD". I found an article that says it's indium!
I opened a wikipedia page
Indium-115 makes up 95.7% of all indium!!!

I smelled these transparent mirrors and they had an unusual pungent smell and I had an allergy attack that lasted for several minutes. And now I'm still afraid of getting lung cancer.
There were no warning signs on the matrix that there was radioactivity inside, it was written "do not disassemble".
I learned that indium is much more radioactive than other radioactive metals used in everyday life.

Please tell me how much indium it contains, how dangerous it is to inhale it, and what harm it does to a severe attack of allergies.

P.S. I use Google translate
 
I was told on another forum that the more radioactive potassium-40, which is in the human body in large quantities. But indium worries me, because in a mixture with it there can be more radioactive isotopes. Indium is also toxic and allergic.

I want to extract indium from these films.
Indium oxide probably does not darken in air and retains reflectivity. I want to make a UV mirror. An unprotected silver or aluminum mirror darkens when exposed to air. The glass-covered mirror does not transmit ultraviolet light well.

I'm not good at googling.
Please tell me how much indium is contained in the LCD of Dell Latitude D520 laptop?
 

Probably none, or as close to none as to make no difference - there's nothing hazardous in LCD panels (except perhaps traces of mercury in old CCFl ones?).

As you're obviously not a Chemist, I would suggest you keep well away from any kind of Chemistry related experiments.
 
No idea!
However the bulk of the actual indium-containing substance is likely to be Indium-Tin oxide, which is a transparent conductor used to make the electrodes on the inside of the display, that control the liquid crystal material.

That likely exists in only microscopic quantities.
 
Many consumer electronics from laptops to tablets contain thin films of indium tin-oxide that act as transparent conductive coatings in the displays.
I may have been wrong
What does mean "coatings in the displays"?
Inside the package (with "do not touch" label) I found unusual mirror films with a pungent smell. Films separate from the glass matrix.
3 pieces.
The first film smeared the point light horizontally and strangely flipped the image like a prism
The second film smeared the point light vertically and strangely flipped the image like a prism
And third film did not smear the light, but in a strange way inverted the image like a prism
I just read not carefully, not knowing English ...
Films are contained inside the glass?
Then what are the strange mirror films made of?
I thought that indium tin-oxide conducts light, but it conducts current!

Sorry.

Then what are the strange mirror films made of?
 
The transparent or semi mirrored layers are most likely acrylic or polyester based polarising layers.

The overall light control of an LCD is based on changing polarisation; the LCD material "twists" light polarisation depending on the voltage applied, making it transparent or opaque depending if the polarisation lines up with the external layers or is twisted 90' to it.
 
I thought that indium tin-oxide conducts light, but it conducts current!

ITO is photo-conductive. I used to deposit ITO using RF sputtering. It's basically a transparent electrical conductor. It can be greenish or yellowish. Indium wire, used it for soldering, will melt in your hand.
 
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