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"The company will separate out valuable isotopes such as Strontium-90, which has fuel applications in marine and aerospace engineering, and use neutrons to tran
by vavooom 1y ago
"The company will separate out valuable isotopes such as Strontium-90, which has fuel applications in marine and aerospace engineering, and use neutrons to transmute the rest into shorter-lived isotopes"
From Wikipedia, it looks like Strontium-90 can be used in "treatment of bone cancer, and to treat coronary restenosis via vascular brachytherapy". Pretty cool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90
- SoftTalker 1y agoStrontium is taken up by the body like Calcium, as it's in the same group in the periodic table.
- rbanffy 1y agoI don’t think anyone is considering its ingestion. At least I hope not, but these are very strange times.
- temp0826 1y agoFwiw supplements containing strontium exist (strontium ranelate mostly), which is supposed to assist with osteoarthritis symptoms and bone growth.
- rbanffy 1y agoNone with Strontium 90
- throwawaysoxjje 1y ago“Taken up” mean it participates in the same sort of biological processes
- khuey 1y agoStrontium-89 injections were indeed used as a palliative treatment for bone cancer, though I think they've been discontinued.
- rbanffy 1y agoThe short half life makes it less problematic than its 90 neighbour. It also decays to a stable isotope.
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