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To: go4it who wrote (24138)	11/3/1997 11:28:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35569

not true.. its the boron in the sands that kills it. but that is only if you do a direct nuclear reactor neutron bath assay on the dirt. If you do an extraction with NiS then it don't matter. radio species in the dirt are likely polonium forming as dust from radon. Mme. Curie's ghost.

To: go4it who wrote (24138)	11/4/1997 6:27:00 AM
From: Aurum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35569

Chuck, the dirt would have to be extremely "hot" to cause any problems, in which case there would be enormous environmental problems in mining the stuff. If the background radiation did interfer (and I can't see how it could) there are various standard analytical chemistry techniques which would correct nearly all interferences. Such techniques are: blank samples, standard additions.