Chapter Ninety-Seven: Radiated Toothpaste
Queenie pulled a tin tube from her storage bracelet and a dark brown glass bottle and placed it on the table.
"This is Moshacher's latest product, which contains radium, the radiation of uranium is too low, not very popular, I also think this thing is very strange, I don't know how effective it is, when I came to buy two and bring them over. ”
Jia suddenly retreated consciously, but he still didn't feel at ease, and couldn't help but release another anti-radiation shield in front of him, only to feel a little more relieved.
"What are these? Have you used them?" he was in a hurry, and even his accent came out.
Seeing him like this, Queenie was a little amused and a little puzzled: "It doesn't have to be like this, right? I asked the teacher, and she said that although the radiation of radium is strong, the penetrating power is very weak, even if there is only one layer of clothing, it can block most of the rays." You were one of the first to study radiation, so you should be familiar with it. I haven't used any of these things, I'm a mage, and they're of little use to me. ”
Kaichi also slowly calmed down, and understood that what Queenie said was the truth, there are three kinds of radiation of radioactive elements, alpha, beta and gamma, of which alpha and beta are helium nuclei and electron flows, which have poor penetration, and can even be blocked by healthy skin, only gamma rays are the most harmful.
That's why the Hulk is mutated by gamma rays, and gamma knives are also used to treat cancer.
The decay of radium in vitro produces the first two rays the most, and the impact on the human body is much smaller, and if it is not exposed to high-dose radiation for a long time, the harm is not as great as imagined.
But looking at the two products that Queenie brought, they don't look like external things.
"It's used for brushing teeth, and it contains radium, which is said to kill bacteria and keep teeth healthy. Inside this bottle is a tonic with radium, which is said to be rejuvenating. ”
"For brushing your teeth, there are also internal tonics. "Jia Yi had a chill, and I didn't expect to see radiated toothpaste.
If these things come into contact with the internal organs, or the mouth, they are all weak parts of the human body, and they lack skin protection, which is a suspect who dies quickly enough. This is indeed able to protect teeth, but it is a bit of a waste, after all, when people die, their teeth are used less, and they must be slower to deteriorate.
As for radium-containing tonics, do you want to recharge yourself through radiation? Think you're Godzilla.
If you want to rejuvenate yourself, even if you can't get the fountain of life from the elven island, wouldn't it be good to ask for some moon spring water?
"What do you think? How can radium come to life?"
"Maybe it's because radium can fluoresce," Queenie said and almost laughed, "The radioactive element has been so hot lately, the discovery of protons and the mystery of the atomic nucleus are slowly being revealed, and more and more mages are beginning to pay attention to the atomic nucleus, which slowly affects ordinary people." Perhaps it is because of this that they think that radiation is a good thing. Now, as long as it is said that the products with radium are added to it, they sell much better. ”
Compared with magic materials, although radium is rare, it is not too expensive as an ordinary material, and many mages have extracted a lot of radium in order to experiment, so it is not difficult to buy radium on the market.
The hot sales of radium products actually have something to do with Jiayi. Jiayi and Yangxi's studios led a trend, especially the emergence of magic lathes, which greatly improved production efficiency, and all those involved made a lot of money, which greatly stimulated the prosperity of the market.
When capital is released, neither those with vested interests nor those who are greedy will be satisfied with the status quo. Slowly, all kinds of new products began to appear, some of them made money and some people lost money, but the market became more and more prosperous. In particular, in just a few years, Moshacher has almost doubled its population and expanded its urban area a lot.
The vast magical industry brought with it a large number of workers, some of whom were no longer able to survive in other places and were brought in as laborers by merchants from all over the world, and many of whom were almost bought as slaves. Although Moshacher forbade the slave trade, the primitive capitalists used various means to circumvent it, but under a different name.
Even with the council at the top, the lives of the workers at the bottom were still very difficult, and many of them could barely make ends meet by working long hours. But at the same time, there is a large middle class, and more and more people have purchasing power.
At this node, radium appeared, just like the outlet of the Internet market, which was popular with the support of the original capital, and instantly began to become popular, and for a time the products containing radiation became a hot spot.
At this time, radiation is not something that people can avoid and even destroy the base station, but is considered a universal material, which can be added to almost anything, and then greatly increase the price.
It's like graphene and nano, whether it's useful or not, these high-tech sounding words are piled up in one go. The bad thing about Moshacher's merchants is that they are too honest, and they really add radiation raw materials to it, and even dislike that the radiation of uranium is not obvious enough, and they are only willing to add radium to it.
Jia Yi put on a pair of crocodile skin gloves, picked up the tube that Queenie said was used to brush his teeth, unscrewed the lid and squeezed out a little, the outer container turned out to be made of lead, and the contents of the extrusion were delicate paste, and it was really toothpaste. In the past, Moshacher was popular with tooth powder, and toothpaste was the first time I saw it.
The lead skin is very good at blocking the radiation inside the toothpaste, and the danger is much less than Jia Yi imagined. But as soon as the toothpaste was squeezed out, the radiation instantly became larger, making Jiayi's hairs stand on end.
Because of the propaganda in his previous life, he was a little sensitive to radiation, such as Queenie, who did not react to toothpaste and the sudden rise of radiation, and it was also related to the solidification of the atomic structure when Jiayi's cognition was solidified, and his perception of radiation was more acute.
"Doesn't the council care? Radiation is so dangerous, it's not good for ordinary people to come into contact with it? Fortunately, the lead tube has a strong shielding effect on radiation. ”
"Is radiation really so dangerous? They use lead tubes not to prevent radiation from affecting others, but to prevent people who don't buy them from taking radiation in vain. Seeing Jiayi's cautious appearance towards radiation, Queenie was also a little surprised, "I don't think the teachers are so cautious, are you too careful?"
Jia Yi was speechless for a while, the reason for using lead skin was to avoid white prostitution? Perhaps there were some reasons why lead skin was easier to process. It's just that this toothpaste is both lead and radiation, is the person who uses it okay?
Natural radioactivity is more likely to be overlooked because it is mostly electron and helium atomic flows, especially when it is outside the body. The effects of radiation on the human body are long-term and not significant for a short period of time. Although products such as radiant toothpaste are added with radium, it is impossible to add too much, radium, as a newly discovered substance, although it is not a magic element, it is extracted using a magic array, and the cost is not low.
All of this has affected the detection of radioactive materials, especially for mages, who are more resistant to radiation due to the perennial exposure to magical elements.
"No, radioactive material is more dangerous than you think, and this kind of thing should not be touched by ordinary people. Seeing that Queenie was still a little skeptical, "Why don't we do an experiment, it's always more convincing." ”
Queenie immediately nodded in agreement, as an authority on thermodynamics, energetics, and atomics, one of the first to discover radiation, although not as legendary as Magni, he still had a lot of say.
The two immediately issued a mission through the Far Wanderer Escort to buy a batch of critters and returned.
Although the Traveler Escort is busy now, they immediately spent a lot of effort to carry out Jiayi's commission, and Jiayi's commission is a little strange, but it is not difficult, not to mention that the remuneration is also very satisfactory.
In the eyes of outsiders, if a mage is not strange, he is not called a mage.