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| captpackrat 08/16/19 6:10:08 PM #33: | In 1879 three hillbillies in the Ozark Mountains followed their hound dog into a cave where they found the walls covered with a strange silvery ore. Their torches suddenly went out and they barely managed to get out of the cave before collapsing. One of the men soon developed burns all over his body. We now know the cave was filled with thorium and radium, which decays into radon gas. The radon had displaced most of the oxygen in the cave, snuffing out the torches and nearly asphyxiating the men. Radon decays into radioactive polonium, which rapidly decays into radioactive forms of lead, bismuth, and thallium before becoming non-radioactive lead. The radon gas had gotten into the man's clothing, decayed into polonium, a solid, which stuck to his clothes then continued to irradiate him causing radiation burns. Radioactivity wasn't discovered until 1896. --- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, Minutus carborata descendum pantorum. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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