strontium aluminate

I read in sci.electronics.design that Al wrote (in ) about 'strontium aluminate', on Thu, 6 Oct 2005:

Pu metal reacts strongly with acids, but that's a chemical reaction; it doesn't affect the radioactivity.

Lots of quantum effects are a tad hard to believe, but this one is several tads harder than most - entanglement does not allow the transfer of information faster than the speed of light.

It is defined as "spooky action at a distance."

martin

Yep, spooky. The double slit experiment is freaky

martin

No. White phosphorus glows in the dark because it slowly oxidizes to phosphorus pentoxide. It doesn't respond to ionizing radiation in that way.

A mixture of plutonium dust and ground white phosphorus might give a spectacular flash and result in a young dog.

Think about it.

I read in sci.electronics.design that Rich Grise wrote (in ) about 'strontium aluminate', on Thu, 6 Oct 2005:

residual probability.

It was probably zinc sulfide phosphor. Especially if it lit up green.

Pu gets bad press. I think the "most toxic" credit is a contest between botulism toxin and diptheria toxin, and "most carcinogenic" is probably aflatoxin, from the mold that grows on peanuts (assuming you exclude viruses.)

I think for the serious bacterial toxins, one molecule kills one cell.

John

Except that Pu is one of the nastiest known chemical poisons.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

Hardly. Pu toxicity is greatly exaggerated (and often by the popular press).

See the following, under the heading "precautions":

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Kewl! Check under "Applications":

" 238Pu has been used successfully to power artificial heart pacemakers, to reduce the risk of repeated surgery. It has been largely replaced by lithium-based batteries recharged by induction, but as of 2003 there were somewhere between 50 and 100 plutonium-powered pacemakers still implanted and functioning in living patients."

So it must not be as dangerous as the hysteria says. THey should take the reactor waste and take out the 238 Pu and make atomic batteries for houses and cars! I wonder how it'd do in a Nerva rocket?

Cheers! Rich

Yeah, I looked this up too, before posting:

The LD50 for Pu from cancer due to radiation is something like 200 micrograms, making it about 1000 times more toxic than arsenic monoxide.

The LD50 for prompt poisoning is around 25 mg by inhalation, vs 50 mg for hydrogen cyanide.

How bad do you want it to be?

Literature references are discussed in, for example,

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

I read in sci.electronics.design that Keith Williams wrote (in ) about 'strontium aluminate', on Fri, 7 Oct 2005:

Obviously a right-wing conspiracy. (;-)

Couldn't possibly be excellent scientific information.

I always enjoyed the smell of hydrogen cyanide.

Almonds?

I understand that if H2S ever starts to smell good, you're approaching the lethal dose.

There a mushroom collectors club around here that sometimes collects the lethal phalloides (sp?) shrooms, sautees them with a little butter and garlic, eats them, and spits them out. They're supposed to be excellent.

John

I read in sci.electronics.design that martin griffith wrote (in ) about 'strontium aluminate', on Fri, 7 Oct 2005:

Yes, you can replace your lead or hexavalent chromium by plutonium if you wish.

Is it excluded in the RoHS fiasco?

( For some reason I always think of the Royal Horticulutral Sociecty when I see RoHS)

martin

AFLAK!!!!

One time, in high school, somebody set off a H2S stink bomb in one of the bathrooms. It cleared two corridors and half of two other floors. One of the teachers claimed, [I paraphrase] "Hydrogen sulfide is even more poisonous than hydrogen cyanide, but it's detectable at such low levels that, as you can see down the hall, people will get away from it before they die."

Thanks, Rich

Can they get me some psilocybe spores? I've heard that you can "grow

Thanks! Rich