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To: DBrow

Plutonium, an element, is indeed found in nature. Just not in a pure form.

Some of its ores are concentrated enough naturally to be harmful.


50 posted on 04/03/2009 8:08:12 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: Sherman Logan

The most stable Pu isotope has a T1/2 of 80 million years, so I doubt you’ll find it in nature. It’s not on a daughter path in a decay chain so it’s not being produced by decay, like Po or Ra.

Were you thinking of polonium?


69 posted on 04/05/2009 9:06:46 AM PDT by DBrow
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