DU

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

is DU more radioactive than the lead used in "normal" bullets, which also form little particles? 

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

[was: RE: [PEN-L] Death By Slow Burn: How America Nukes Its Own Troops}

Michael wrote: 
> Yes and no.  A piece of depleted uranium is not particularly 
> radioactive
> because the particles it emits are relatively big and will 
> mostly bounce
> off your skin.  When it is fired, it forms tiny particles that you can
> breathe into your body.  These particles continually give off
> radioactivity inside your lungs, where they do great harm.