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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: plutonium
Message-ID: <527@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 16:05:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 16:05:44 1985
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In article <296@tove.UUCP> judd@tove.UUCP (Judd Rogers) writes:
>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.

Sounds pretty poisonous to me. Also, a gram of the stuff puts out an awful
lot of radiation. In any kind of quantity the stuff is murder.

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Charles Forsythe
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