[ RadSafe ] Article: How Atomic Particles Helped Solve A Wine Fraud Mystery

[CFRBUG]

I can see the wine tasting, would Cesium add a "salty note" to the wine?

Bruce Bugg
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On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:59 PM, ROY HERREN <royherren2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thank you for sharing the article.  It was great!
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> Roy Herren
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> On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 2:13 PM, CFRBUG <cfrbug at gmail.com> wrote:
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> In a laboratory, deep under a mile-high stretch of the Alps on the
> French-Italian border, Philippe Hubert, a physicist at the University of
> Bordeaux, is testing the authenticity of a bottle of wine.
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> "We are looking for radioactivity in the wine," says Hubert. "Most of the
> time the collectors send me bottles of wine because they want to know if it
> is fake or not."
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> By taking the bottle in the hand and putting it close to a detector, Hubert
> records the gamma rays. The level of those gamma rays emitted can often
> tell him something about when the wine was bottled. For example, if it was
> bottled before about 1945, there shouldn't be any cesium 137 — radioactive
> evidence of exploded nuclear bombs and the Atomic Age — in the wine.
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> Full article:
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> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/03/318241738/how-atomic-particles-became-the-smoking-gun-in-wine-fraud-mystery
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> Bruce Bugg
> cfrbug at gmail.com
> (404)507-2237 [(404)507-2CFR]
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