Given the toxicity and LD50 of Polonium 210*, I'll turn down the tea and sugar.
I'll also, avoid your house.
*The median lethal dose (LD50) for acute radiation exposure is arouund 4.5 Sievert; that dose can be delivered in just 50 nanogrammes by ingestion or 20 nanogramsmes by inhalation.
Putting that in context, one gramme of Po 210 is sufficient to poison 20 million people of which 50% would die if administered as single unique doses.
Very tiny amounts of Po 210 are present in cigarette smoke, but Cancer Research UK calculated that someone smoking 30 cigarettes per day receives the radiation equivalent of 300 chest X-Rays per year.
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"Given the toxicity and LD50 of Polonium 210*, I'll turn down the tea and sugar.
I'll also, avoid your house.
*The median lethal dose (LD50) for acute radiation exposure is arouund 4.5 Sievert; that dose can be delivered in just 50 nanogrammes by ingestion or 20 nanogramsmes by inhalation.
Putting that in context, one gramme of Po 210 is sufficient to poison 20 million people of which 50% would die if administered as single unique doses.
Very tiny amounts of Po 210 are present in cigarette smoke, but Cancer Research UK calculated that someone smoking 30 cigarettes per day receives the radiation equivalent of 300 chest X-Rays per year.
I'm not posting the link as my last link resulted in a 24 hour ban from the fora."
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