Thermochromic pigment?

I looked them over, and they are pretty poor examples of Msds I’m afraid. The liquid crystal one especially. They mention wearing full protective gear in the event of fire but don’t say what the combustion products are.

However, if you look at the chemical composition list, one of the four components is problematic. You don’t see chloride mentioned there, but if you look up the cas numbers (just Google cas 910-31-6), you’ll see that what the msds describes as “cholesteric liquid crystal” is in fact cholesteryl chloride. I don’t know for sure, but I would expect anything having chloride is going to give off HCl when heated to burning. I would stay away from it.

I did a search. Here is an Msds for cholesteryl chloride that lists HCl as a byproduct of combustion: https://www.chemblink.com/MSDS/MSDSFiles/910-31-6_Sigma-Aldrich.pdf

I didn’t see any problems with the thermal dust Msds, as long as your venting is good.

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