RE: Beer as a chelating agent for uranium

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 D.W.Reisenweaver@iaea.org wrote:

> In the Army we used beer for tritium exposure problems. Our emergency
> vehicle always had a case of beer onboard.

	--Tritium is a special case because it mixes with the hydrogen in
the water in your body, so by getting rid of water we get rid of tritium.
Drinking a lot of beer is an obvious way to remove the present water from
your body. I don't think this is chelation.





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Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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