[meteorite-list] TRINITITE

From: dbeatty <dbeatty_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:04:54 2004
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20020528115949.00710eec_at_pop3.internetcds.com>

I don't own any Trinite, but if I did, I would probably store it in a lead
lined bag...such as those sold at photo stores to protect film from airport
x-ray machines.
Dennis

At 11:50 AM 05/28/2002 -0800, Michael Blood wrote:
>Hi Pierre,
> "Better men than I," as the saying goes, have told me 2 different
>things regarding the radioactivity of Trinitite:
>1) That its radioactive level is so low as to be completely irrelivant
>& that you could tape it to the inside of your jock strap and wear
>it daily with ZERO impact on yourself or your offspring (I wouldn't
>reccommend this, myself)
>2) Others have said it has a "lower" level of radioactivity than the
>furnature in your home (I don't see how this is possible - but I lack
>insight on several things)
> I do know some collectors keep their Trinitite wrapped in
>tin foil "just in case" - but then, some people wear tin foil hats to
>protect them from the radio beams....
> Best wishes, Michael
>
>--
>rochette wrote:
>> I am amazed that some people dare collecting this material!
>> Army people say its radioactivity "should" have come now to acceptable
>> level, but first who is able to trust 100% such quote (from people who
>> experimented injection of plutonium into humans without telling them) and
>> second even if on average this material may be relatively safe, one cannot
>> exclude that a given sample is by chance loaded with a speck of
plutonium...
>>
>> so no thanks, even if cheaper than natural impact glass!
>>
>> Pierre
>>
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Received on Tue 28 May 2002 02:59:49 PM PDT