[ RadSafe ] Salsman's even more uranium trioxide gas spoofs

Otto Raabe ograabe at ucdavis.edu
Wed Jan 24 11:49:19 CST 2007


At 07:26 AM 1/24/2007, James Salsman wrote:
>Volatility of uranium trioxide (a/k/a uranyl oxide) gas:
>  http://www.bovik.org/du/vol_uo3g.png
>--the plotted data points include those from Alexander (2005):
>  http://www.bovik.org/du/Alexander2005.pdf
>and another Ackermann et al. (1956):
>  http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1743156
>and the DOF-adjusted R^2 corresponds to the 95% confidence interval shown.
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As the first reference shows, temperatures well above 2000 Kelvin are 
required to produce and maintain uranium trioxide gas. If a person was to 
try to inhale air at 2000 Kelvin, the presence of uranium oxide vapor would 
be a minor concern......

Otto


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