On 07/05/2011 10:07, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 07/05/2011 06:59, Matty F wrote:
On May 7, 3:45 am, Roger wrote:
I need to replace the weights in some of my sash windows, because the
existing ones aren't heavy enough. I need to use lead because less
dense
iron or steel weights would occupy more space than is available.

Depleted uranium takes even less space, and is probably cheap. I'm not
sure how it should be cut though

Plus the added bonus of your window frames glowing in the dark :-)


DEPLETED uranium is NOT radioactive.

Yes it is.

"It is weakly radioactive and remains so because of its long physical
half-life (4.468 billion years..." according to the World Health
Organisation, and also Wikipedia and the BBC


http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs257/en/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1101447.stm