Re: DU

[Michael Pollak <mpollak@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Les Schaffer wrote:

> however, if you breathe in dust containing DU, the dust gets trapped
> in your lungs. Then these same alpha particles, because of their
> limited ability to travel __through__ living tissue, deposit their
> effects in the worst places locally, i.e. lungs and surrounding areas.

And isn't the reason that DU munitions are so effective at penetrating
armor (which is why the military is so loathe to give them up)  because
they ignite on contact -- thereby turning most of their mass into just
this kind of dust?

Michael