Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tove.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!tove!judd From: judd@tove.UUCP (Judd Rogers) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: plutonium Message-ID: <296@tove.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 11:34:28 EDT Article-I.D.: tove.296 Posted: Wed Jul 31 11:34:28 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Aug-85 06:58:59 EDT References: <541@bentley.UUCP> <499@mit-vax.UUCP> Reply-To: judd@tove.UUCP (Judd Rogers) Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 11 Actualy, Plutonium is not especialy poisonous but it is a heavy metal and salts (emphasis on salts) of Plutonium are very difficult to remove from the body. Since it is also radioactive it will cause a realy horific case of cancer after a few years. -- Beware the Imp of Perversity! Spoken: Judd Rogers Uucp:...{allegra,seismo}!umcp-cs!judd@tove