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To: nuconvert
Hamid Reza Asefi said Iran had done research in the past on polonium but stopped 13 years ago.

Since there are samples with the Polonium, this is very easy to check: Po-210, with half-life of 138.39 days, decays into the stable Lead isotope Pb-206. After 13 years almost nothing of the Polonium remains as it has been divided 13*365/138.39 or about 34.29 times. Just measure the relative amounts of Po and Pb. My 2 cents is that he is lying.
52 posted on 02/26/2004 11:10:19 PM PST by AdmSmith
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To: AdmSmith
That ocurred to me too. I'd read it had a very short 1/2 life. I have no idea how they perform their tests.

No calculations necessary to label him a liar, however.
53 posted on 02/27/2004 4:40:59 AM PST by nuconvert (CAUTION: I'm an acquaintance of someone labelled :"an obstinate supporter of dangerous fantasies")
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