On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Status: RO Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 22:40:56 +0100 From: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> Cc: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> Subject: wow - palladiated! (Re: Palladium: technical limits and implications) User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:08:08PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 6:54 PM +0100 on 8/7/02, Adam Back wrote:
Palladiumized
Palladiated?
;-).
that's pretty funny, rhymes with irradiated -- nice connotations of radioactive material with radioactive half-lives spewing life-hazardous neutron radiation ;-)
Helps that palladium is in fact a heavy metal. Man, perhaps Pd even _has_ a half-life on the decay path from plutonium down to lead or something. That would be very funny.
Adam
Yeah, well Pd has 46 protons and atomic numbers ranging from 91 to 124. Most are stable, but some have half lives in the micro to millisecond range, a few with hours to days and 1 with 6.5 million years. It's just before silver, so it's most likely to be found in nuclear reactors as a fission product. I'd have to dig some more to find its neutron cross section :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike