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The Mysterious Radioactive Cheese Grater (Made in China)
WXYZ Detroit ^ | 11/06/08 | WXYZ

Posted on 11/06/2008 7:08:50 AM PST by Kieri

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To: Little Ray
"Seen that. Its Alpha particles, not particularly dangerous"

Unless ingested...those heavy particles at short range do a lot of damage.

I think that is the trick with the Russian use of tiny amounts of Polonium.

21 posted on 11/06/2008 7:54:29 AM PST by spokeshave (0bambi wants to kill babies and raise taxes, Sarah wants to raise babies and kill taxes)
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To: Kieri
“There is no such thing as an absolutely safe level of radioactive exposure.”

BS. Many physicians believe very low levels of radiation are actually beneficial, much in the same way that small amounts of sunlight are beneficial. Hormesis effect.

22 posted on 11/06/2008 7:59:11 AM PST by kidd
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To: conservative_guyz

Actually, there “is” nothing to see here. It is obvious from the fact that the radioactivity is Co60 that some scavengers stole a radiography apparatus from some pipeline construction site and turned it in as scrap metal. It got melted down and incorporated with a bunch of other scrap as cheap steel. It’s happened before in the US, so the problem isn’t unique to China.


23 posted on 11/06/2008 7:59:19 AM PST by Wonder Warthog ( The Hog of Steel)
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To: stayathomemom

There is lots of radioactivity around the home.

Each and every smoke detector has Americium-241.

Salt substitutes contain potassium...of which 0.01% contains naturally radioactive potassium-40.

Lantern mantles contain radium, as do some watch hands.

The human body has over 100 grams of potassium-40 and emits over 4000 beta particles per second.


24 posted on 11/06/2008 8:08:15 AM PST by kidd
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To: kidd

Wait, it is 0.0001 of naturally occurring potassium and the body contains > 0.1kg of it?!?

0.1 kg / 0.0001 = more than 1000 kg of total potassium in a human body.

No.


25 posted on 11/06/2008 8:35:58 AM PST by InMemoriam (This year, your prayers will do more good than your vote.)
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To: kidd
Lantern mantles contain radium, as do some watch hands.

Lantern mantles contain thorium, not radium.

26 posted on 11/06/2008 8:40:11 AM PST by TChris (So many useful idiots...)
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To: Kieri
since the chinese use factories to produce multiple products (bicycles, refrigerators, and migs all in the same factory).. maybe that factory is also producing nuclear components

a better question would be, what else would a wire like that be used for? what weapon system could use it?

27 posted on 11/06/2008 9:05:36 AM PST by sten
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To: Kieri

“If it came in today, it wouldn’t make it passed the borders”

You have to be kidding!!!!


28 posted on 11/06/2008 10:39:34 AM PST by Eighth Square
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To: jahp; LilAngel; metmom; EggsAckley; Battle Axe; SweetCaroline; Grizzled Bear; goldfinch; B4Ranch; ..
MADE IN CHINA POTTERY STAMP

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Please FReepmail me if you would like to be on or off of the list.

(This can be a high volume ping list.)

29 posted on 11/06/2008 2:46:15 PM PST by JACKRUSSELL
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To: stayathomemom

Um.........I think I have a piece or two of Fiesta Ware someplace. It used to be my favorite casserole dishes.

Uh oh.


30 posted on 11/06/2008 2:55:35 PM PST by EggsAckley
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To: EggsAckley

This was a true red and old. Not the red you see now for Fiesta Ware.


31 posted on 11/06/2008 3:18:51 PM PST by stayathomemom ( nowanemptynester)
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To: DBrow
yellowcake, though, has a half-live of over 100,000 years,

Try about 10,000 times that number.

32 posted on 11/06/2008 3:23:53 PM PST by ColdWater
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To: InMemoriam
0.1 kg / 0.0001 = more than 1000 kg of total potassium in a human body.

Your math error.

0.1 kg * .0001

33 posted on 11/06/2008 3:27:04 PM PST by ColdWater
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To: stayathomemom

I don’t know about that. My Mom had it when I was very young, and I just turned (gasp) 63.

Thanks for the info.....I’ll check it out.


34 posted on 11/06/2008 3:30:28 PM PST by EggsAckley
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To: ColdWater

Your way multiplies kg of K-40 times the percentage of K-40 in the total potassium (dimensionally incorrect).

With dimensions:

0.1 kg K-40 * 1.00 total K
————————————— = 1000 kg total K
0.0001 K-40


35 posted on 11/06/2008 5:42:14 PM PST by InMemoriam (This year, your prayers will do more good than your vote.)
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To: ColdWater

You are right, I was thinking how much shorter 235 was compared to 238 and dropped a few zeros.


36 posted on 11/06/2008 6:32:16 PM PST by DBrow (NUMA!)
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To: InMemoriam

0.1 kg K-40 * 1.00 total K
————————————— = 1000 kg total K
0.0001 K-40


I am dimensionally correct.

0.1 kg K-40 .0001 kg K-40 (radioactive)
——— * ———————————— =
body kg k-40


37 posted on 11/07/2008 6:21:22 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: tet68

Yeah, don’t forget the personal flying car! They keep resurrecting that story every 10 years.........LOL


38 posted on 11/07/2008 6:28:32 AM PST by AmericanDave (Oh say can you see?)
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To: Wonder Warthog
incorporated with a bunch of other scrap as cheap steel.

Sorry, came across this due to another thread on the cheese grater...

The working assumption is that you don't worry about it, since you are not *cheap* steel, right? (see your tagline).

Cheers!

39 posted on 06/07/2009 8:37:46 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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40 posted on 06/07/2009 8:44:38 PM PDT by garjog (Used to be liberals were just people to disagree with. Now they are a threat to our existence.)
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