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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
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Subject: Re: sterilizing food with radiation
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 15:26:56 EST
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In article <225@redwood.UUCP> rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock) writes:
[referring to radiation used for food sterilisation]
>[...]  They use only ionizing radiation, such as gamma
>or electron-beam, not neutrons or alphas, thus no secondary radiation
>is even possible.

Huh?  Surely you got that one the wrong way about: it's neutrons and
(especially) alphas that are heavily ionizing, isn't it?  Sorry to
nitpick, but I hope I haven't misremembered all that school physics...

							Kay.
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