{"id":1088,"date":"2008-12-08T04:49:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T09:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2008-12-08T04:49:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T09:49:41","slug":"glow-in-the-dark-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1088","title":{"rendered":"Glow-in-the-Dark Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/2008\/11\/30\/heated-prose\/\">Heated Prose<\/a> at Futility Closet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marie Curie&#8217;s laboratory papers are still so radioactive that they&#8217;re kept in lead-lined boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers who consult them must agree to work at their own risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I should point out that it&#8217;s unlikely to be because the papers were irradiated, but because they were contaminated.  Neutron activation can result in a radioactive nucleus, but exposure to gammas and alphas generally does not.  I think that &#8220;irradiated&#8221; is often misunderstood to mean &#8220;contaminated.&#8221;  Irradiated means exposed to radiation.  Contaminated means radioactive materials have become attached to the object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heated Prose at Futility Closet. Marie Curie&#8217;s laboratory papers are still so radioactive that they&#8217;re kept in lead-lined boxes. Researchers who consult them must agree to work at their own risk. I should point out that it&#8217;s unlikely to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1088\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}