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12-11-2012, 07:06 PM | #32 |
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Maybe not. The standard disease of radium workers was "radium jaw" which about as much chemical effect (Ra replaces Ca in bone) as a radiation induced one, and seems to have killed by necrosis (tissue death) not cancer.
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Re: How good would a sword made out of a meteorite really be?
Apparently uranium dust is rather dangerous if inhaled, so you'd want to take some precautions when sharpening your uranium sword.
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12-11-2012, 08:06 PM | #34 |
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Uranium dust is about as toxic as lead dust; it's something to be careful about, but for anyone who regularly expects to use a sword, terminal sharp object poisoning is a much bigger risk.
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12-11-2012, 08:31 PM | #35 |
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Re: How good would a sword made out of a meteorite really be?
Lead paint caused a lot of kids to grow up mentally retarded, so I don't think you should downplay uranium poisoning by downplaying lead poison.
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Re: How good would a sword made out of a meteorite really be?
There's a difference in kind and not just in degree between 'potential health hazard in the future for a fraction of those exposed' and 'can kill you on a combat time scale'. Cigarettes have killed and harmed an enormous number of people, but the risk of them on the battlefield is essentially not worth considering next to the risk of sharp, pointy things and heavy, crushy things.
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And the other question is could you end up with a radioactive isotope by exposing it to some other highly energetic environment for a sufficient amount of time? The classic RPG one is either a "simple" nuclear explosion or lying around in a post nuclear wasteland, but there's also inside a reactor (whether normal and active, or melted down a-la-chernobyl, or a "natural" reactor like the ones they've found in Africa with the funky radiation-based ecosystems) or I suppose hanging around near a radioactive super-being. But once you've got radioactive super-beings, all physics has gone flying out the window and it's really only "radiation", not anything particularly related to reality.
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I would be interested in seeing that. Do you happen to have a link to it or the username/email of the creator?
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