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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by Ovah on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:00PM (#27107499)
(I'm aware of the sarcasm tag). Technically that 100% should be 99.999%. Not all drugs are found in nature. Technetium, a man-made compound, is used in some radiology. https://go.drugbank.com/categories/DBCAT001978
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by LeifCarrotson on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:17PM (#27107679)
No, technetium is still a natural product, it just takes a little processing. An organic miner dug up some raw uranium ore, then someone refined it, irradiated it, and isolated the resulting molybdenum-99, and finally a radiologist extracts the all-natural technetium from the decay process of that molybdenum.
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by qwertywert_ on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:46PM (#27110061)
Natural = found in nature.
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by LeifCarrotson on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @10:40AM (#27118643)
It is found in nature, it just has a slightly different number of protons when it's raw.
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by qwertywert_ on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @06:21PM (#27124337)
I know what you mean, but it's just the definition of natural at least on our "earth". If you find some technetium somewhere let me know.
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by simplify on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:46PM (#27111804)
You can argue that, and I might agree with it, but it's not regulated as such.
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