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My source tells me that pi is about 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510. I don't generally include all those digits, though, because it's boring and not usually relevant to the narrative. - Dank (
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04:37, 14 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Sure. Changed to "A curie of polonium weighs about 0.2 milligrams". The important point is that they processed a ton of lead oxide to produce less than a milligram of polonium.
Hawkeye7 (
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22:29, 15 December 2016 (UTC)reply
One thing that nobody seems to notice - perhaps everybody does it in America - is that Monsanto ran a chemical processing operation involving radioactive substances in a residential neighborhood.
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22:45, 15 December 2016 (UTC)reply
in the lead, "recruited by the Manhattan Project in the role of coordinating the plutonium purification and production work being carried out at various sites" --> "recruited by the Manhattan Project to coordinate the plutonium purification and production work being carried out at various sites"
It has been pointed out to me that "meter" is not the official US spelling, just Noah Webster's. The Manhattan Project consistently used "metre".
Hawkeye7 (
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21:20, 16 December 2016 (UTC)reply
was there a Unit II? Units I, III, IV and V seem to be mentioned, but not 2...
The Talbotts were among the heirs of the Delco company, which was by then a part of General Motors.[7] This fortune had come in large part from profits made during World War I on airplanes that never flew. While it's interesting that Thomas was sort of self-dealing with his wife's family property, this bit really isn't relevant to the article.
0.2 to 0.3 milligrams (0.0031 to 0.0046 gr) What the hell's a gr? A grain? If so link the unit in the template on first use as I'd expect that most people also wouldn't know what that was.
Done It's the American customary unit. In fact, it is the default conversion of the {{convert}} template. The conversion is mainly for Americans, as everyone else knows metric, and they are familiar with grains, since they own firearms. Linked.
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20:39, 31 January 2017 (UTC)reply
<Western drawl>I'm afraid that you're under a bit of a misapprehension, son; the only ones really familiar with grains are the reloaders, and they're a pretty small proportion of the American public, as the rest of us are content to buy our ammo as God intended.</drawl>
32 to 83 curies (1.2 to 3.1 TBq) TBq = teraBequerels? Link this one as well.
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