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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/10/2014 11:10 AM, Spencer Graves
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello, All: <br>
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John was correct: The first two matches when I Googled
for "Uranium on Amazon" were small quantities sold for research
purpose and testing Geiger counters (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://www.amazon.com/naturally-contains-Uraninite-radiation-detector/dp/B00CQ9LLR4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405011818&sr=8-1&keywords=uranium+ore#productDescription">http://www.amazon.com/naturally-contains-Uraninite-radiation-detector/dp/B00CQ9LLR4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405011818&sr=8-1&keywords=uranium+ore#productDescription</a>
and <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM">http://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM</a>).
The second was is labeled 766 cpm (counts per minute). If I
computed correctly, to get this many cpm, this container would
have roughly 30 micrograms. (For my calculations, see <a
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href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m1D_WmOcmbcrZhK177G1NBWnITjht1dr72fn8UObuvc/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m1D_WmOcmbcrZhK177G1NBWnITjht1dr72fn8UObuvc/edit?usp=sharing</a>).
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If I understand correctly, the primary problem with
uranium is NOT radioactivity but toxicity, roughly like eating
or inhaling lead. See Wikipedia, "Uranium" (<a
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium</a>).
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It is all in context, Spencer. Doctoral research by Stephanie
Raymond-Whish at N. Ariz. Univ. established that Uranium is also an
estrogen mimic. That accounts for the rapid rise in cancer rates
among Navajo women when the US started to mine on the Navajo
Reservation, including at least 2 members of Raymond-Whish's family
including her mother. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.hcn.org/issues/371/17708">https://www.hcn.org/issues/371/17708</a><br>
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I think that all members of Congress who vote for extended uses of
uranium should be wiling to have the female members of their
families drink groundwater from down slope of the old mining sites
tailing ponds and slag piles. <br>
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"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you
don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth"
- <i>Roberto Clemente</i></div>
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