View Single Post
Old 01-06-07, 03:17 PM   #39
Letum
Navy Seal
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: York - UK
Posts: 6,079
Downloads: 43
Uploads: 0
Default

Thanks Wooly
Ive just been reading up on Mercury Radium.
It seams that mercury was used as a primitive way of extracting radium from uranium salts. If the mercury was being used for that, then it would have been a nice toy for scientists, but useless for making nuclear bombs.

I'm starting to doubt that japan or Germany had the technology for using mercury as a coolant in the war years. I know it was used in the 1950s - 1980s as a coolant.
They where probably just playing about with radium tho.
__________________
Letum is offline   Reply With Quote