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- From: johana!tsw@apple.com (Tom Watson)
- Subject: Re: Avoiding radioactive household products
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.021224.20451@mumbo.apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:12:24 GMT
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- References: <1992Aug24.164324.19218@SSD.intel.com> <1992Aug24.185340.19127@unlinfo.unl.edu> <1992Aug25.235542.17607@sopwith.uucp> <1992Aug26.025131.479@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug26.025131.479@athena.cs.uga.edu>, mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Aug25.235542.17607@sopwith.uucp> snoopy@sopwith.uucp (Snoopy) writes:
- > >In article <1992Aug24.185340.19127@unlinfo.unl.edu> cbettis@unlinfo.unl.edu (clifford bettis) writes:
- > >
- > >| Comparable sources can be found in smoke
- > >| detectors, lantern mantels and even salt substitute.
- > >
- > >Speaking of which, where can one get smoke detectors that are
- > >nuke-free these days? I can't find them anywhere... :-(
- >
- > For that matter, how about nuke-free bananas?
- >
- > (Bananas contain potassium, and potassium is one of many elements which,
- > in the naturally occurring mixture of isotopes, are slightly radioactive.
- > People have never lived in a radiation-free environment.)
-
- That's for sure!! Geologists have been Carbon-14 dating things for quite some
- time (btw Carbon-14 IS radio-active). Most energy on this planet has its
- real roots in some sort of radioactivity. Some people don't realize that
- the main source of energy for us is about 93,000,000 miles away and a big
- thermo-nuclear bomb. Its all a mater of distance and dose!!
-
- Note also that most (if not all) color monitors/TV's use rare earth minerals.
- Most of these have a small % of radioactive isotopes.
-
- One cannot live in a nuclear-free world, its all around us!!
- ------
- Tom Watson
- johana!tsw@apple.com
-