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Old 03-21-2006, 05:33 PM   #5
barefoot serpent
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I learned that those novelty glow-in-the-dark coackroaches from toy stores will begin to melt plastic objects that you leave them on over time. Apparently the beta particles from Radium decay are sufficient to breakdown the atomic structure of plastics.
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