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Tobacco also loves to collect uranium and thorium in the root. As much as I want to blame the company here, they're already selling poison. What percentage of i
by joker_minmax 3y ago
Tobacco also loves to collect uranium and thorium in the root. As much as I want to blame the company here, they're already selling poison. What percentage of it is their fault if the poison is even more poisonous?
- replwoacause 3y ago100% of it
- pfdietz 3y agoCollecting uranium in plant tissues won't do much to increase Po-210, since the decay chain to Po-210 runs through Ra-226, which has a halflife of 1600 years.
- joker_minmax 3y agoThe polonium is not the only thing decaying in the tobacco, is all I meant.
- pfdietz 3y agoIf you eat uranium, the radioactivity is so low level that the chemical toxicity is more important.
- joker_minmax 3y agoNot eating, though, inhalation of particulates into the lungs.
- pfdietz 3y agoI don't think the route of ingestion would alter the point I made.