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lunatica

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3. Rachel Maddow explained it would take 45 days to see the half life of plutonium
Tue Nov 27, 2012, 08:07 AM
Nov 2012

Last edited Tue Nov 27, 2012, 02:35 PM - Edit history (1)

Because natural plutonium has a much longer half life than man-made polonium. So they have to wait for that. If it turns out the plutonium he had in his body, if it indeed was there, was man made then it would be obvious he was poisoned.

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