Too much Americiumfluoride in tea !!! (2026 Update)

Hi, how do you know that coffee is totaly free of your deadly americium fluoride or it doesn't contain some still more deadly but yet undiscovered poison? What do you think about, say, plutonium fluoride?

Karel Valter

Science without consciousness is nothing but a ruin of soul (Francois Rabelais)

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:04:10 GMT, Karel Valter burbled thusly in rec.food.drink.tea:

I just did a quick google search on Tea and "Americium Fluoride" and got nada. Methinks what we have here is propaganda from the Juan Valdez* camp!

Reg'ds,

Terry

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1. I don't like coffee.
2. Which scientists? It sounds too much like the ubiquitous "they."
3. I don't like coffee.
4. "Some teas have almost lethal doses" means that others don't.
5. I don't like coffee.
6. Which teas have almost lethal doses?
7. I don't like coffee.
8. Why are you advocating only coffee? Why not water, juice, cocoa, and milk?
9. I don't like coffee.
10. Where is it documented that people die from drinking Americium-laced tea?
11. I don't like coffee.
12. Which studies showed lab rats/mice dying from drinking Americium-laced tea?
13. I don't like coffee.

And, finally, just to be sure you don't miss it...

I don't like coffee.

Or a troll.

Given that Americium Fluoride is radioactive, if there's enough of it in tea to be lethal, then we've got bigger problems than heavy metal poisoning.

I know, its a huge problem. That is why I always test my teas for alpha radioactivity. If I found a tea radioactive - I do not drink it. But I do not throw it away - it makes perfect Christmas present to people I do not like. Since I adopted that strategy, I have fewer and fewer unpleasant people around me.

Cheers,

Sasha.

That's why I -always- do an alpha frisk of my tea before I drink. No Americium, Neptunium, Protactinium, etc for me thank you very much!

Jinx!

Oh I found the added alpha particles add to the flavour. Great in winter as it gives me a lovely "ready-brek" glow that keeps me warm throughout the day... :-)

Chris...

I think maybe Bruno was referring to the new "Aurora Borialis" line of glow-in-the-dark teas by Celestial Seasonings.

Interestingly enough Americium, when mixed with flouride, is reported to produce a green liquid, which would make it the perfect murder weapon for any atomic physicist with access to it looking to assassinate a green tea drinker who doesn't notice a bubbling froth in his or her tea. The perfect crime.

Rufus T. Firefly Tokyo

Chris J wrote:

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All you wiseacres on this NG should be more respectful of a well-intentioned and possibly important post like this. The main domestic use of Americium (isotope 241) is as an ionization source on thin sheets of foil in smoke detectors. Some of these are made in China. If the same factory makes smoke detectors and Pu-erh, it is not inconceivable that the "leaves" could get mixed. Fluoride, of course, enters when workers with good oral-care habits but otherwise lacking in a sense of hygiene spit into the steamers. I think the guy's onto something, and we should be more attentive to such important alerts.

-DM

From an Oxford University loo, ca. 1979: "Be alert." "Be aloof. We already have enough lerts."

LOL!

Thank goodness I drink Darjeeling tea. No industrial production of smoke detectors or good oral hygiene there ..

:-)

Ask Bruno Beam before ;) The only thing I have found on the internet is this nonsensical page from google's cache

....oh, I don't like coffee too ;)

Actually, this "info" may play a positive role in the lives if our readers. I always maintained that it is good to buy a Geiger counter for your home while nobody needs them, rather than hope that the government take care of you after the FACT. Today a decent ex-civil defense Geiger counter can be bought on e-bay for $30-50 (and pay attention - you have to do some reading before you buy) and it's well worth it.

Sasha.

i work in a gun range shovleing lead. A little radio activeity couldn't hurt me

tom

I can certainly see how a smoke detector manufacturer and tea packer could easily be one in the same. The technological overlap is obvious. It's well known that in China, just like in other parts of the world, tea producing regions are also famous for their smoke detectors.

A sense of logic like this could easily secure a position as chief legal counsel for a major tobacco company.

I know you were just joking, though, in an incredibly subtle way.

Rufus T. Firefly President Tea & Smoke Detector Mfg., Ltd.

Dog Ma 1 (reply w/o spam) wrote:

well-intentioned

Americium

As long as we're off-topic, I'd like to recommend the novel "Thank you for smoking." It centers on a lunch club calling themselves the MOD Squad - for "Merchants of Death" - the top lobbyists for the tobacco, alcohol and gun industries.

Please, pardon my ignorance, but...do you own one of it? and how do you use it? I mean, it sound to me like a difficult thing to use. Don't know, it's a little strange to test what you eat and what you drink before using it...