Re: Potassium Iodide

[Ted de Castro <tdc@XRAYTED.COM>]

GREAT!!!  Pull out a Geiger counter to "check to see if it is still

potent"!!



I wonder where I could find some to check.



Susan L Gawarecki wrote:

> 

> As I recall, potassium chloride is used as an example of natural

> radioactivity because of the K-40.  I expect there would be a similar

> instrument response to KI.  So, will people take a radioactive pill to

> protect them from "deadly" radiation?  Publicize this fact just right,

> and you could crash the fear-based KI-pill market.

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