[LMB] Mamma don't 'llow no guitar pickin' 'round here... OT:

Mark Allums mark at allums.com
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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