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Default Ballast - $53/lb

On 3/20/2013 12:02 AM, Martin Eastburn wrote:
Look at the atomic numbers - there is 72 for light bulbs and
9x, 1xx for the various depletion - meaning the half life is
reducing the radiation...

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???

The half-life of 92U238 is ~4.5x10E9 _yrs_...(that's 4 billion w/ a B
years). One doesn't observe much change in specific radioactivity w/
time in a normal lifetime.

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