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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by sandworm101 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:18PM (#17569445)
The real shame is that ancient lead isn't the only alternative, just the cheapest. Lead could be spun in centrifuges and then securely cast to remove such contaminants. This has been done with silicon, in that case to remove unwanted isotopes. It is a wildly expensive process but at least it is a process that could produce an infinite amount of product, rather than ancient lead of finite supply.
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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by mirimir on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:56PM (#17571890)
Huh. Basically like uranium?

But what compound? PbH4 isn't stable. PbF4 is barely stable. Maybe Pb(CH4)4 ??? Naively, I guess that you'd get even better mass resolution. Molectual mass of UF6 being ~352, vs ~267 for Pb(CH4)4. Good use for all those leftover centrifuges ;)

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by sandworm101 on Friday July 20, 2018 @09:27AM (#17574778)
Or maybe even with just liquid lead? Would need very different machines but might be possible.
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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by Stratoscope on Friday July 20, 2018 @12:06AM (#17572377)
> a process that could produce an infinite amount of product

Well, it would be infinite until you run out.

Edit: it appears that someone disagrees with me. No worries, healthy disagreement is a good thing.

But I'm curious: how would you produce an infinite amount of product?

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by PhasmaFelis on Friday July 20, 2018 @02:00AM (#17572828)
You're getting downvoted because you're nitpicking vocabulary. Most people understood "infinite amount of product" to mean "functionally infinite, given the low demand and large supply."
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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by Stratoscope on Friday July 20, 2018 @03:32AM (#17573134)
You are no doubt correct.

I won't worry about it further, time to go enjoy my unlimited internet.

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