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  2. Officials highlight the dangers of radon - AOL

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    Radon test kits can be purchased by calling the Illinois Radon Hotline at 800-325-1245 or at most hardware and department stores. It is recommended to conduct one short-term test and one long-term ...

  3. What is radon? The radioactive gas is found in homes across ...

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    Radon, a byproduct of naturally decaying uranium, is estimated to cause thousands of deaths each year nationwide. Here's how to protect yourself.

  4. How California eco-bureaucrats halted a Pacific Palisades ...

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    Most notably, the county-run Santa Ynez Reservoir — which is right in the heart of Pacific Palisades, and can hold 117 million gallons — was empty when the fires broke out last week, and has ...

  5. Health effects of radon - Wikipedia

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    After 11 half-lives (42 days), radon radioactivity is at 1/2 000 of its original level. At this stage, the predominant residual activity is due to the radon decay product 210 Pb, whose half-life (22.3 years) is 2 000 times that of radon, and its descendants 210 Bi and 210 Po, totalling 0.03% of the initial seed activity. [citation needed]

  6. Radioactive quackery - Wikipedia

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    A number of spas that treat visitors with naturally infused radon water from the local hills were founded in 1906 and onwards in Jáchymov, Czech Republic, and still exist today. [6] These spas were world-renowned, as evidenced by an article in the New Zealand Thames Star Supplement from 1912 (the article uses the Austrian name of the town ...

  7. List of hoaxes - Wikipedia

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    [2] The Holocaust teaching hoax of 2007. Washington Irving, who created a hoax about the supposedly missing Diedrich Knickerbocker. Jack Kelley, longtime USA Today correspondent. David Lassman, who wrote the 2007 "Rejecting Jane" article, which chronicled Jane Austen's rejection by modern-day publishers. The New York Zoo hoax of 1874.

  8. Officials say mystery drones are not tracking missing ... - AOL

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    "There is an alert that's out right now that radioactive material in New Jersey has gone missing on Dec. 2. There was a shipment that arrived at its destination. The container was damaged and was ...

  9. California drought manipulation conspiracy theory - Wikipedia

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    The California drought manipulation conspiracy theory is a conspiracy theory that proposes that the 2011–2017 drought was a deliberate, man-made phenomenon, created by weather modification. It is largely promoted by a number of self-proclaimed "independent researchers" and "scientists", and by alternative news outlets .