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To: Willie Green
The Vulcan laser, housed at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, has enabled Prof Ledingham and his team to use nothing more than the focused energy contained in light to excite the nucleus of the iodine 129 isotope, with a radioactive half life of 15.7 million years. When hit with laser light the isotope becomes totally inert and safe to handle in less than an hour.

Techno-Barf.

Show me the transitions.

Provisional Top Quack Declaration.

12 posted on 08/08/2003 2:05:15 PM PDT by Gorzaloon (Contents may have settled during shipping, but this tagline contains the stated product weight.)
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To: Gorzaloon
They then focused the laser on venture capital.
35 posted on 08/08/2003 3:19:52 PM PDT by At _War_With_Liberals ("they took 2 steps to the left, I took 3 steps to the right")
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To: Gorzaloon; tortoise
53I129(1/2life=15Myrs) + enough laser E to knock out a neutron(>2Mev) -> 53I128(1/2life=1/2hr)+ P,e, and anti neutrino.

53I128(1/2life=1/2hr) -> 54Xe128(1/2life=1/2hr)+ beta and other products.

I suppose...

45 posted on 08/08/2003 4:54:04 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: Gorzaloon; Cyber Liberty; maxwell; Eala
Hmmmmmmmmmn.

Color me skeptical, but I'm willing to learn/read more.

Marked for looking article(s) up later tonight.
74 posted on 08/15/2003 8:48:38 AM PDT by Robert A. Cook, PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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