• pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I don't think they concluded that he was poisoned. it's for sure possible but the official line is the polonium came from a lifetime of heavy smoking.

    was there more than one autopsy?

      • prismaTK
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        1 year ago

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        • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          it is found in tobacco that is grown using fertilizers which contain radium. the radium decays into a gas, rises and sticks to the plant and then decays into polonium. im pretty sure that was their theory.

      • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Tobacco farmers use fertilizer to help their crops grow. These fertilizers contain a naturally-occurring radionuclide, radium. Radium radioactively decays to release radon gas, which then rises from the soil around the plants. As the plant grows, the radon from fertilizer, along with naturally-occurring radon in surrounding soil and rocks, cling to the sticky hairs on the bottom of tobacco leaves. Radon later decays into the radioactive elements lead-210 and polonium-210. Rain does not wash them away. Polonium-210 is an alpha emitter and carries the most risk.

        This is from the epa