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Comment by hammock

The sticky stuff on the tobacco leaves (where most of the Po210 is) is important to the product.

Also worth clarifying that the tobacco plant is radiophilic, meaning it proactively takes up radioactive elements into the body of the plant and tends to grow better in the presence of radioactivity.

It’s for this reason that Big Tobacco also quietly seeks out radioactive fertilizers

parent hammock 3 years ago

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