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HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Cobalt 60 has a half life of 5.27 years.

If the 7-1-63 is a date stamp of original manufacture, it’s gone through over 11 half-lives. There’s less than .05% of the original flavour.

I don’t know about the decay products, but I’d wonder how far we are from legitimately edible.

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porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Nickel is not extremely edible lol

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- nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  What’s a little heavy metal poisoning between friends?
  
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  - outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    What’s a friendshio without it?
    
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- cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  And since everything eventually decays into lead…
  
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  - porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Only stuff that starts off heavier than lead, and even then not everything, some decay chains stop at thallium instead. Cobalt, with atomic number 27, won’t ever become lead, with 55 more protons.
    
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