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- From: shaw@s119.es.llnl.gov (Henry Shaw 510 423-4645)
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- Subject: Re: Are Your Light Bulbs Radioactive? (Gatorade results)
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 16:21:44 GMT
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- In article <136289@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, I, shaw@s119.es.llnl.gov (Henry Shaw 510 423-4645) wrote:
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- |> The human body contains about 140g K (for a 140kg person), so a typical
- |> body burden of K-40 is about 4326 decays/s, or about about 0.12uCi.
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- The 140g K figure is for a ~140 *lb* person, not a 140 *kg* person. Other than that, the calculation
- is correct. To within about 10%, we contain 1g K per pound of body weight.
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