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From: drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.physics
Subject: Xenon/oxygen
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Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 11:07:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  7 11:07:30 1987
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lindsay@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
> I have my doubts about floating in xenon. Radon is a noble gas, and cheaper
> too: why not use that ?  :)  :)

Doesn't sound fun.  Radon is radioactive, and not just a *little*
radioactive.  It's a powerful alpha emitter with a short half-life,
and it wouldn't be fun to have in your lungs.

Dale
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