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- From: gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter)
- Newsgroups: alt.cesium
- Subject: Re: More Cesium facts.
- Date: 10 Sep 1992 21:22:31 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1992Sep10.192511.7334@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
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- >Something with a half-life of 3*10^6 years won't occur naturally unless it is
- >the decay product of something else, since it has been about 1333 half-lives
- >since the formation of the Earth. What's 1/(2^1333)? That's the amount of
- >the original Cs-135 left, if the earth is 4 billion years old.
-
- True, except that Cs-135 could be the decay product of something with
- a much longer half-life, which could be continually restocking the
- world's supply of Cs-135. Also, Cs in the earth's core could be
- absorbing neutrons from other nearby sources of radioactivity,
- bringing the abundance of Cs-135 well above what we would predict
- using the simple calculation using the age of the earth...
-
- Anyone know if Cs-135 (or any other Cs isotope for that matter) lies
- anywhere in another isotope's decay chain?
-
- --Dan
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