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To: <1/1,000,000th%
It seems like this could be possible by leaving the microbes near a radioactive mineral deposit, maybe Uranium or Thorium.

How about cobalt thorium G?

74 posted on 09/27/2002 6:13:31 AM PDT by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
How about cobalt thorium G?

I don't remember the decay schemes exactly, but if you start with a large nuclei like uranium, it'll run through a lot of the smaller, more radioactive species like cobalt as it decays into other elements. A lot of the really radioactive elements are so short-lived that they only occur when they decay from something else.

79 posted on 09/27/2002 7:27:08 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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