K-40 Thread

[Michael Stabin <stabin@npd.ufpe.br>]

>     Its worse than you think - if you go to the health food store you can
buy
>     "lite salt", which contains a large proportion of KCl.  I took a
course in
>     which the instructor used lite salt to demonstrate the action of a
pancake
>     meter.

Shouldn't KCl thus be sold with the "irradiated foods" sticker?  (See also
Stewart Farber's post).


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