Palladiated? (was re: wow - palladiated! (Re: Palladium: technical limits and implications))

[Mike Rosing]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

> Status: RO
> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 22:40:56 +0100
> From: Adam Back <adam at cypherspace.org>
> To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
> Cc: Adam Back <adam at cypherspace.org>
> Subject: wow - palladiated! (Re: Palladium: technical limits and implications)
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> 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