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Side effects may include constipation, low blood potassium, and stools that are dark. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] With long-term use, sweat may turn blue. [ 3 ] It mainly works by trapping the toxic monovalent cations in its crystal lattice after ion-exchange with potassium or ammonium cations and thus preventing the absorption of thallium and radio-caesium ...
Barium-137m has a half-life of about 153 seconds, and is responsible for all of the gamma ray emissions in samples of 137 Cs. Barium-137m decays to the ground state by emission of photons having energy 0.6617 MeV. [8] A total of 85.1% of 137 Cs decay generates gamma ray emission in this manner.
[48] [49] Radiogardase (Prussian blue insoluble capsules [50]) is a commercial product for the removal of caesium-137 from the intestine, so indirectly from the bloodstream by intervening in the enterohepatic circulation of caesium-137, [51] reducing the internal residency time (and exposure) by about two-thirds.
A mining company dropped a tiny capsule of caesium-137 somewhere along an 870-mile stretch of Western Australia’s Great Northern Highway. The plan is to find it before someone gets hurt, Liam ...
Caesium-134 is not produced via beta decay of other fission product nuclides of mass 134 since beta decay stops at stable 134 Xe. It is also not produced by nuclear weapons because 133 Cs is created by beta decay of original fission products only long after the nuclear explosion is over. The combined yield of 133 Cs and 134 Cs is given as 6. ...
The radiation source in the Goiânia accident was a small capsule containing about 93 grams (3.3 oz) of highly radioactive caesium chloride (a caesium salt made with a radioisotope, caesium-137) encased in a shielding canister made of lead and steel. The source was positioned in a container of the wheel type, where the wheel turns inside the ...
Tuinal was introduced as a sedative-hypnotic (sleeping pill) medication in the late 1940s by Eli Lilly. It was also used in obstetrics for childbirth. [1] [2] It was produced in brightly colored half-reddish orange and half-turquoise blue gelatin capsule form (bullet-shaped Pulvules) for oral administration. Individual capsules contained 50 mg ...
The capsule is 6 mm × 8 mm (0.24 in × 0.31 in) in size, [1] and is used as part of a nucleonic level sensor in the crushing circuit [2] in iron ore mining. The capsule contains 19 gigabecquerel [3] of caesium-137 as a ceramic source.