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Re:Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43% by mcpackieh on Sunday October 08, 2023 @04:14PM (#37814014)
A tree could suck up water containing radon, but after you cut down the tree and let it dry under a shed for a few weeks that radon will be gone. It will have all decayed away because the half life is only 3.8 days. For firewood to still contain radon a few weeks after the tree was cut down, it must have a fairly substantial amount of uranium or thorium in it (constantly producing new radon.)
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Re:Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43% by 29athrowaway on Sunday October 08, 2023 @04:32PM (#37814171)
Insighful, thanks. Then my radon meter must have been affected by something else.
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