Originally posted by luxordelphi
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
Hey Gaul...on your wikipedia strontium explanation...I'm confused. I don't think the military is using strontium to make toothpaste for sensitive
teeth. But I could be wrong. Are they?
What - you think no-one in the military has sensitive teeth??
Wow they must have great dental plans!!
Either hat or you might some day try to read a whole post and not just cherry pick bits out of it - there's another challenge for you!
I'm not a chemistry expert but then neither are you but maybe you could explain what the military is using strontium for.
How about the bits for using the strontium compounds for pyrotechnics? Do you think the military uses pyrotechnics?
I don't think anyone needs to be an expert in chemistry to have an opinion about whether or not the military has a use for pyrotechnics - so go on -
try and figure it out.
I found strontium 90 used in depleted uranium weaponry where it is aerosolized and inhalable as nano size.
www.wordiq.com...
Nope - there's nothing about that in that link at all.
dzarkhan.wordpress.com...
Here we go - an actual claim, and with a reference too:
The Pentagon’s case was not helped in 1999 when the Department of Energy (DoE) was forced to admit that America’s DU weapons were not pure
U-238, but were laced with small amounts of U-236, plutonium, neptunium, americium, and nearly 200 other unstable transuranic elements and fission
by-products, including strontium-90 and Cesium-137.[40] It seems that for many years Union Carbide, Martin Marietta, and Lockheed Martin, the
companies that produced the enriched uranium for Uncle Sam, made a practice of recycling spent reactor fuel back into the enrichment process. They did
so for purely economic reasons. When the price of U-235 rose enough, it became profitable to recover more of the preferred U-235 fraction in this way.
As a result, the DU waste stream became a witches brew of unstable isotopes and daughter products, none of them naturally-occurring. All are created
in reactors and every one is thousands of times more radioactive than U-238.
40 DoE press release: Past Recycled Uranium Programs Under Review as Energy Department Investigation Continues (provides updated information on
Cold War era operations), September 29, 1999. NATO was forced to make a similar admission in 2001 after the UNEP team independently assayed DU
fragments from Kosovo. NATO press release, January 18, 2001
But there was no strontium 90 listed in the OP about materials used by the military.....so why are you introducing it now??
Oh yeah - that would be the ol' shifting the goalposts - get found that 1 claim is drivel, so move onto something completely different and pretend
it's the same so you can "win"
edit on 11-2-2012 by Aloysius the Gaul because: (no reason given)