In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:35:44 -0500: Hi, [snip] >If a tiny fraction of the nickel is transmuted each second, and if >nearly all the transmutation events produce unstable copper which >eventually decays back to (higher weight) nickel, and if it takes >multiple steps to get to stable copper, then by the time we've got a lot >of stable copper running around, nearly all the nickel must have been >transmuted at least once, and the whole lot should be radioactive. In
...which I effectively already said several days ago. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
