[LMB] Mamma don't 'llow no guitar pickin' 'round here... OT:
Mark Allums
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Sat Apr 12 06:40:44 BST 2008
Paula Lieberman wrote:
>> At 09:18 PM 4/10/2008, Pouncer at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> The isotope of Helium containing two protons and only one neutron is
>>> not, technically, known as "Threelium".
>> I thought it was "Trillium"?
>
> Tritium is hydrogen that's got two neutrons (all hydrogen has one proton,
> ordinary hydrogen has no neutrons, deuterium has two. Tritium is
> radioactive.. and what makes old basements in New England made of granite
> rock, health hazards unless properly ventilated! .
I thought that was Radon. (A noble gas.) Or is it both?
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Mark Allums
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