Are you positive about that?
Dewey

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If they were exposed to a neutron storm, the neutrons must have knocked
out 
billions of electrons from the helium they had in their lungs and alpha 
partikels are not healthy...
Inge

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From: "David D. Hillman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TN] NTC - Friday Trivia Question


> Hi Inge - the simplest explanation is that the bomb went boom, a
> tremendous amount of energy events at the atomic level began to occur
and
> the U238 bomb jacket was subjected to transformation by neutron
capture.
> Any explanation beyond that means I have to open up a few text books
and
> do some reading! My curiosity is for the folks on the airplane
conducting
> the air sampling - just what were the health effects of that exposure!
>
> Dave
>
>
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> I try to figure out by thinking only, but it's Friday, and I've
visited a
> 2
> hs synt concert with Jean.Michel Jarre, and am exhausted. Jarre uses
lots
> of
> lasers in his shows. Laser..hm...photons... exitation...gamma
> radiation....hydrogen bomb..hmm...Einsteinium must have higher  energy
> than
> Uranium  when electrons fall back to origin place in the orbit after a
> high
> energetic bombardment......so they must have used ionized Uranium that
was
>
> bombarded with gamma that lifted electrons to higher orbit , then
> accelerated these ions through a magnetic field and registered a
energy
> count higher than what had been seen before...I give up. Dave, you got
to
> tell us. I make things more complicated than what's needed. I'm sure
> you'll
> tell us about a simpler way.  Hmm...I don't remember the deterioration
of
> Einsteinium...guess it starts fall apart very rapidly. Does it have
> anything
> to do with Geiger-Muller detecting? Hmmmmmmmmm...now wait a little.
I'm a
> stupid. They must simply have decided the density! But could
they...the
> new
> element had short life..OK...I come no closer..
> May someone else crack the nut. Tomorrow I'll have a look in my old
books
> of
> Physics..
> Inge
>
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> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:45 PM
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>> Dave,you asked for the sampling method. Well, in my opinion you need
use
> a
>> 'balance' that can react on single atoms. Sounds as some kind of mass
>> spectrometer. You have to count less than
picograms...hm....femtograms.
>> Question is how to decide the correct weight. I'll thinh it over.
>> Inge
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "David D. Hillman" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 2:45 PM
>> Subject: [TN] NTC - Friday Trivia Question
>>
>>
>>> Hi gang! Ok, its Friday and Doug hasn't arrived in the office for me
to
>>> harass him yet so here is our "Friday Trivia" quiz. Note that since
I
> am
>>> a
>>> materials engineer, the questions are going to be material based
(duh!)
>>> and intended to drive Doug nuts. One rule - the use of Wikipedia as
a
>>> research tool is prohibited but all other internet sources are open
> game:
>>>
>>> 1) Question Number One:
>>> Einsteinium was discovered in 1952. What sampling method was used to
>>> discover the element? Bonus points if you can state the location the
>>> element was discovered.
>>>
>>> 2) Question Number Two:
>>> Sir Humphry Davy discovered what element in 1808?
>>>
>>>
>>> The "winner" of the Friday trivia quiz is a choice of either a case
of
>>> Doug's Diet Mountain Dew or a case of Mummy dust.
>>>
>>> Good luck and happy Friday!
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave Hillman
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