Re: Kr-85 -> ionization -> oxidants -> acid rain??

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

Isn't Krypton also responsible for Superman's amazing capabilities? Clearly

a case of hormesis with Kr-85.



----- Original Message -----

From: Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 1:41 AM

Subject: Kr-85 -> ionization -> oxidants -> acid rain??





> We have a new case of "krypton threats the climate".

> The message (via a few reader's fallout in some newspapers) is that

krypton

> 85 is said to, via ionizations, drive oxidation processes so that it in

turn

> causes sulphuric and nitric acid to form, the forests are dying etc.

>

> I wonder if anyone can point at any reference relating to the ionization

> part of the argumentation.

>

> We had a break out of a variant of this 16 years ago after a politician

had

> interpreted krypton as being a synonym for freon + misunderstanding the

> difference between radiative (it was about greenhouse gases, I doubt that

> she undestood the difference between ozon and carbon dioxide for instance)

> and radioactive.

>

> My personal action and reflections only,

>

> Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

>

>

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