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Newser has a story that ties heart disease to lead exposure at at frequency ratios 10 times than all previous studies.
Scientists kept tabs on more than 14,000 adults who took a national health survey between 1988 and 1994, then again in 2011. After looking at how many people died during this period—about 4,400 in total, 1,800 of those from cardiovascular disease—the study in the Lancet Public Health journal found about 256,000 deaths each year could be tied to lead exposure. The effects of lead on heart health had previously been thought to be much lower, especially at low levels of lead exposure, study lead author Bruce Lanphear said.
The study also evaluated several other causes of deaths that were correlated to lead exposure at low levels. The suggest over 400,000 deaths per year in the US may be associated with lead exposure.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday March 14 2018, @10:57PM (9 children)
Ask TMB what is he using as weights for his fishing line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @01:13AM (6 children)
Tungsten for the win - Density: 19.3 grams per cubic centimeter
Lead - 11.34 grams per cubic centimeter
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 15 2018, @02:27AM (5 children)
Righto.
Platinum is even better: 21.4 g/cc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday March 15 2018, @04:37PM (1 child)
That's probably too heavy, but what can i do, now that it's getting hard to get Polonium 210 ?
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Thursday March 15 2018, @10:41PM
Pu 239. Just don't get too much of it in one place.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Thursday March 15 2018, @10:38PM (2 children)
I have a 40 or so pound block of tungsten that I use for weighting things down that I'm gluing or otherwise don't want to move.
That's expensive enough as is. About $800 at current prices. (It was originally used for shielding in a particle accelerator. One of the profs here in chemistry used it as a beamstop for a high powered laser. He wandered into my shop one day, saw it and remarked "Oh, you're who ended up with that.")
If I had a 40 pound block of platinum I would already have retired after selling it. (and then, of course, gotten free room and board at Club Fed for stealing state of Illinois property ;) )
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 15 2018, @10:46PM (1 child)
Want one for myself. Any idea where I could buy one?
A wolfram block, I mean (the platinum one will ruin me in shipping and handling expenses - grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Thursday March 15 2018, @10:51PM
No idea. I picked it up in a dark storage area I was helping clean out, thinking it was a lead block, and got quite a surprise from how much it weighed. McDonald (the chem prof) got it when they decommissioned a betatron particle accelerator here on campus.
I've been known to ask unsuspecting people to hand it to me and watch their consternation when they try to lift it. ;)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @11:23AM
Lead isn't heavy enough, so I use small glass spheres full of mercury.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 15 2018, @05:46PM
Ask TMB what is he using as weights for his fishing line.
So long as he washes his hands afterward he's probably fine. It's the lead that gets inside your body that's the problem.
So, think dust that's inhaled/ingested, fumes that are inhaled, or lead that's dissolved in water and ingested.