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Have ingested radioactive particles ever shown up in scans ?
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Have ingested radioactive particles ever shown up in scans ?
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when I was a boy I rather misguidedly scraped the luminous paint from old watch dials and may have ingested some, has this ever shown up on scans that use radioactive tracers
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http://lateralscience.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-radium-water-worked-fine-until-his.html
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Re: Have ingested radioactive particles ever shown up in scans ?
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It's a standard technique for investigating respiration, normally using krypton 85.
We made several interesting discoveries after Chernobyl: smokers are more radioactive than nonsmokers (especially in radon-affected areas) and women are more radioactive than men (not fully understood but probably due to spending more time indoors).
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Quote from: alancalverd on 05/12/2020 15:10:39
... smokers are more radioactive than nonsmokers ...
Tobacco is unusually radioactive ...
https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/05/24/tobacco-firms-have-failed-to-act-on-radioactivity-in-cigarettes-heres-why/
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