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Re: Radioactive

To: <varricch@aero.und.edu>, <RSKUNTER@aol.com>, <jonee@epix.net>
Subject: Re: Radioactive
From: "Louis Varricchio" <varricch@aero.und.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:32:02 -0600
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Ok, I am wrong (to err is human...)--plutonium is an alpha emitter.  But Dr.
Seaborg's book, as I remember it, does describe how you can hold it (if you
want to!), etc.  Also, that the (alpha) particles do not penetrate skin
directly. 

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