Light and delicate, phoenix-eyed moth eyebrows like flowers. The charm of the ghost is like a scorpion, and the mouth of the honey is poisonous and sandy. Since ancient literature, women who are as beautiful as flowers, but have a vicious heart, are called snake and scorpion beauties. However, this is not the case for all beautiful women, on the contrary, most beautiful women are both kind and beautiful, and both character and wisdom. Just as not all good-looking stones in nature radiate, most gorgeous stones are harmless to people. In the previous article, I mentioned the world-class beautiful stone ~ cobalt calcite, there are stone friends in my article to leave a message, this beautiful stone should have radiation, right? I'm going to talk to you today about which stones in nature cause radiation damage to the human body, and which are beautiful but harmless to the human body.
Cobalt calcite
Speaking of cobalt calcite, I can't help but think of the radiation injury incident in 1992. Three people died of radiation in a month, and a total of 141 people were implicated in different radiation hazards. On November 19, 1992, Zhang Mouchang, a farmer in Shanxi, was working on the dormitory construction site of the Xinzhou District Environmental Inspection Station, when he suddenly found a shiny metal body on the ground, and out of curiosity, he planned to take it home to play with his soon-to-be-born child, so he put it in his pocket. Unexpectedly, three hours later, he had symptoms such as vomiting and nausea. His father and second brother saw that the situation was not right and quickly sent him to the hospital, but things were still developing in an irrepressible direction.
Cobalt 60
No matter how the doctors adjusted, his condition became more and more serious, and after a few days, the fever did not go away, the hair fell out in large quantities, the gums were bleeding, and the skin gradually turned purple-red. Although rescued by many parties, he died half a month later. But the bad luck did not go away, and the second brother and father who took care of him soon developed the same symptoms as him, and within a month three people swed in succession. The most bizarre thing is that the nurses and doctors who took care of him also had mild symptoms, and the hospital quickly isolated the relevant personnel and reported the matter to the relevant departments.
Unfortunately, Zhang Mouchang's wife also has the same symptoms, and her white blood cells are only one-tenth of the normal number of white blood cells in the human body. The incident alarmed Lu Moudao, director of the Beijing Institute of Hematology, and several experts, after consultation, believed that these people were all suffering from radiation diseases. Then the most important thing at present is to trace the source of radiation, after many investigations, Zhang Mouchang's father-in-law recalled a detail. When dealing with Zhang Mouchang's relics, a shiny metal block was sent out of his pocket and thrown into the garbage basket. Through careful searching, it was finally found that it was the metal, and through expert identification, it was a piece of extremely radiant cobalt-60.
Cobalt 60 is one of the synthetic cobalt isotopes, commonly used in clinical cancer chemotherapy, and is also commonly used in radiation breeding in agriculture. The cobalt 60 picked up by Zhang Mouchang is one of the device accessories used to irradiate grain crops in Xinzhou, Shanxi in 1973, inducing genetic mutations to cultivate new varieties, and the result was one that was missed during recycling, although the relevant personnel have been held responsible afterwards, but this incident also gives us friends who love to pick up stones in the wild a warning, not all strange things are worth picking up.
So does cobalt calcite also have such a large radiation? Let's first look at the composition of cobalt calcite and the form of cobalt in it. The main component of cobalt calcite is calcium carbonate, and after some calcium elements are replaced by cobalt elements, pink calcite is formed. That is to say, in cobalt calcite, cobalt exists in the form of cobalt carbonate, and the content is very small, so its radiation hazard is negligible. Everyone often goes to some ore exhibition halls, and you will find that many ores are not tightly wrapped, because the radioactivity in them is not enough to cause harm to the human body. In fact, most of the really harmful minerals come from uranium-containing ores and thorium-containing ores.
Uranium ore
Uranium ore is a thorny rose in ore, beautiful but highly radioactive. There are lumps, stalactites, kidney shapes also have earthy, powdery, black called asphalt uranium ore. It is mainly used for the extraction of uranium from the nuclear industry, and rare elements can also be extracted from uranium mines.
Uranium ore is divided into bitumen uranium ore, square uranium ore, cui arsenic copper uranium ore, calcium uranium mica, calcium magnesium uranium ore, phosphorus zinc uranium ore, etc., most of which have a beautiful appearance, have a gem luster, and are colorful in color, very attractive.
Uranium deposits are divided into granite type, volcanic rock type, sandstone type, moissanite mudstone, mostly granite type in the south of China, and volcanic rock type in the north. Uranium ore is distributed in Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Xinjiang, Liaoning, Gansu, Zhejiang, Inner Mongolia, yunnan in China, and I hope that stone friends should pay attention and do not pick it up casually.
Many beginners will use this uranium ore as a gemstone, and the jade rough will be picked up at home, which is very dangerous. Therefore, picking up stones is not a matter of picking up stones with your head on the line, and you must learn more mineral knowledge before picking up stones, which can not only improve your vision, but also avoid taking dangerous goods home.
In addition, thorium ore is also highly radioactive, compared to uranium ore, thorium ore is not colorful, but there are also a small number of attractive appearances, do not know how not to try not to pick up home.
Thorium ore
Brown curtain stone mostly contains thorium elements, and I do not recommend that stone friends collect it.
allanite
People themselves are visual animals, and there is nothing wrong with loving beautiful stones, but for these gorgeous stones, they must not be picked up and collected at home. In addition, green granite contains rubidium, cesium and other radioactive elements, I personally recommend using less as well. Beautiful stones, while tempting, also need to learn to distinguish. I am a stone idiot Keiko, carry forward the jade stone culture in our country, if you like my article, please pay attention to it.