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To: Casaubon who wrote (36513)	7/4/1999 7:09:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 116762

Casaubon, it is only because only a very small fraction would. You put gold in a thermal neutron flux for long enough and you end up with lousy mercury. Actually the cross section for thermal neutron absorption of gold is quite high (about 70% or so of that of U235 and 10 times larger than that of U238). Zeev

To: Casaubon who wrote (36513)	7/4/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

I don't recall any reports of metal transmutations, when we dropped those bombs in Japan. But, then again, they were small H-Bombs. Actually, both the bombs dropped over Japan were Fission devices, one being a plutonium device, and the other a basic gun-barrel design utilizing U235. I believe each were in the 20Kiloton yield range, as compared to modern devices of several hundred kilotons (depending on the yield that is "dialed" in). H-bombs, on the other hand, are actually triggered by a fissionable device that achieves the heat necessary to achieve fusion. (Help me out here Zeev as I'm commenting based upon my best recollection). Regards, Ron