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- From: logajan@SLEEPY.NETWORK.COM (John Logajan)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Radium and mercantilism
- Message-ID: <9207260506.AA07910@sleepy.network.com>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 05:06:35 GMT
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- Droege mentioned his radium watch. I presume it must be Radium 226, which
- is listed as an alpha source of mostly 4.8 Mev alphas, with a half life of
- 1600 years. The only other "long lived" Radium isotope is Ra 228, with
- a half life of 5.75 years, and 45Kev beta. Like Thorium, Radium undergoes
- a series of transmutations on its way to Lead which produce a series of
- alpha, beta, and gamma emissions. These daughters have fairly short half
- lives, so even a few months after chemcial purification, they should be
- equal probability events.
-
- Jim Bowery suggest "technosocialism." A broader term is mercantilism,
- updated from the old days when precious metal reserves were considered
- important -- but retaining the grants of favoritism directed toward
- connected interests, with regulation and taxes designed to stomp out
- their competitors.
-
- -- John Logajan
-