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Bananas are radioactive too, due to their potassium content. Nobody worries much about those.
by mark-r 7y ago
Bananas are radioactive too, due to their potassium content. Nobody worries much about those.
- riffraff 7y agoRadioactivity derived from tobacco is significantly higher than from bananas. There is a very nice episode of Veritasium (science divulgation YouTube channel) which shows exactly this together with other "well known" radioactive sources (e.g. Chernobyl, Fukushima, Marie Curie's office etc)
- saagarjha 7y agoPotassium cycles through the body quickly.