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Would irradiation of the water by whatever nucleotides in the dust render the water radioactive to some extent?
by xattt 2y ago
Would irradiation of the water by whatever nucleotides in the dust render the water radioactive to some extent?
- egberts1 2y agoHalf life of radioactive oxygen (70 seconds) atom is incredibly short. Tritium (H) half-life is 12.32 years, found naturally in exosphere (highest altitude) by cosmic rays but is even incredibly rarest to be in contact with even when released by a nuclear bomb. Some antique watches uses tritium for their glowing properties and hence even rarer (banned in 1998). Tritium (H+3) can bond with oxygen to make heavy water and is easily pee'd out ones' bladder. Distillation ensures that only dust-free water molecule rises for collection and rarity of tritium is essentially a non-issue. - https://www.britannica.com/science/oxygen-group-element/Isotopes https://www.britannica.com/science/oxygen-group-element/Isot...
- egberts1 2y agoAddendum, chlorinate the water to bond the iodine into iodate state before distillation.