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plutonium, even with a halflife of 24,000 years, will ultimately turn itself into a gram of lead. A gram of arsenic will always be a gram of arsenic—in perpetuity.
Against WATER Too One last example of how far off base society has gone is exemplified by this story from Australia. Imperial Chemical Industries has announced the discovery of a new fire-fighting agent known as WATER (Wonderful and Total Extinguishing Resource).
It is particularly suitable for dealing with fires in buildings, timber yards and warehouses, and is fairly cheap to produce. It is intended that quantities of about l'/i million gallons should be stored in open ponds or reservoirs near urban areas and installations of high fire risk.
WATER is already encountering opposition from safety and environmental groups. One group member has pointed out that if anyone immersed his head in a bucket of WATER, it would prove fatal in as little as three minutes.
Each of the proposed reservoirs will contain enough WATER to fill half a million three-gallon buckets. Each bucketful could be used a hundred or more times, so there is enough WATER in one reservoir to kill the entire population of the United Kingdom.
Did we know, asked a firebrigade spokesman, what would happen to the new medium when it was exposed to intense heat? It has been reported that WATER is a constituent of beer. Does this mean that firemen could become intoxicated from the fumes when they use it to put out a fire?
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