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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.physics
Subject: Re: Re: Nuclear Accidents and boiling water
Message-ID: <1675@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Jul-86 18:18:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 21 18:18:51 1986
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In article <288@hdsvx1.UUCP> hoffman@hdsvx1.UUCP writes:
>Concerning the boiling of water to remove radioactivity,
>Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL writes:
>> Actually, it's not totally preposterous.  If a radioactive gas was
>> dissolved in the water, boiling the water would cause it to bubble
>> off.
>
>Where? Into my kitchen?!

Better in the air, where you breathe some of it, than in the water, where
you drink all of it.

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108