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To: mikey_hates_everything
Substances and chemicals 150 years ago that no one imagined could be poisons, contaminates or carcinogens, much less radioactive?

Unless you are deliberately trying to concentrate (natural) radionuclides, there's little chance of your inadvertently doing so.

And radioactivity wasn't discovered until 1895.

Regards,

27 posted on 02/04/2026 12:06:09 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Sure, stuff like Radithor came later but you didn’t need to discover radiation to think that someone might add uranium or radium, which still existed in some form, to a drink because they thought it improved its flavor. Maybe it leached out of the bottle glass, put there to add color. They used whatever they found to make stuff and had no idea about the toxicity—going back to the Romans who put lead acetate into wine and food to sweeten them.


30 posted on 02/04/2026 12:51:51 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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