[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Sounds like a farce to me.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Demron consists of a polyethylene and PVC-based polymer fused between two layers of a woven fabric. The polymer molecule has been designed so that incoming radiation will meet a large electron cloud, which will deflect or absorbed it.

Bad news for Reynolds?

[fone]

Good, this durn thing is too heavy for practical use:

[coloradan]

B.S. A large electron cloud doesn't stop high-energy particles, rather a dense cloud does. Charge neutrality requires that clouds very dense in electrons are also dense in protons ... that is, that the material have a high atomic number, such as lead. Carbon's atomic number is only 6, meaning each atom brings along 6 electrons. Lead's atomic number is 82, more than 13 times higher. If large electron clouds stopped high-energy particles, graphite, with electron clouds the size of the entire sample, would be completely opaque to such particles. But it isn't.

[VRWC_minion]

Does this mean that someone entering the US with a suitcase bomd covered with the material is undectable ?

[fone]

||| "The molecules are lined up to give the illusion of the presence of large atoms" |||

Oh I get it! It just dupes those nasty old gamma rays into thinking it can't penetrate! Har!

Hey, by the way, isn't the correct spelling of your screename John FARCE-on?

=-)

[Revolting cat!]

Dude, what I wanna know, does it shield your brain from electromagnetic psychotronic mind control carriers, the way plain old household aluminum foil does?

[Pontiac]

Its inventors claim that it provides protection comparable to the nuclear industry's standard-issue lead vest, blocking alpha, beta, gamma radiation and X-rays. Traditional protective clothing only protects against alpha radiation.

In nearly 20 years in the nuclear power industry I have never seen anyone wear a lead vest. I have only seen them used in the nuclear medicine field.

We do use quite a lot of lead blankets. If they could be replaced by this kind of fabric it would make a great deal of work much easier.

But as it says at the bottom of the article how it reacts and degrades when subjected to radiation will determine if it is adopted by the industry. If its life span is only a mater of weeks or months, few in the industry will want to expend money to purchase such a product.

[fuente]

The 10th thickness (how much of a material is needed to reduce incoming radiation to 1/10 of its original value) for polyethylene is 24 inches! Alpha radiation is stopped by the dead layers of the skin, and Beta radiation is stopped by clothing. PuuuuuLEASE!

[error99]

I wonder what would happen if I tried to wear one of these through airport security...

[Bobber58]

<Interesting Demron Link

[error99]

RON POPEIL'S NEW POCKET RADIATION SUIT

NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY STORE !

[lsee]

"Ha! And you thought Old Crusty was just an ugly pantsuit! Better get YOURS!!! 'Cause I never take mine OFF!!!"

[punster]

LI am very skeptical. Why? The efficiency of a material for absorbing radiation is a function of the atomic number. In other words, the higher the atomic number, the more efficient the material.

[anymouse]

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