Given that short-lived (alpha particle) radiation from polonium-210 cannot even find its way out of a paper bag, the supposedly hi-tech assassins of Mr Litvinenko seem to have been very untidy. Unless, of course, they intended to leave trails of polonium everywhere, to throw people off their scent. The scientists amongst you will of course be quick to point out that the police are not finding polonium (Po-210), but the product of the decay process, which is lead (Pb-206).
But that does not make any difference. It still implies that the polonium was sprinkled all over the place, because - whether it was inside someone's body, or a metal box, or even a paper bag - it should not be there to be found.
I think the Metropolitan Police should "come clean", and tell us the whole story - stable and unstable isotopes; atomic numbers; the works.
This "dumbing-down" of news items has got to stop!
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now i believe it.
you're smart.
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