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What's 'fallout'?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:47 pm
by Malta Soron
What kinda stuff is 'fallout' exactly?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:52 pm
by UncleScratchy
Nuclear war - radiation, etc.
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 12:45 pm
by Malta Soron
I know that it's radioactive and that it looks like ashes, but what is it?
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:08 am
by Xandax
Dangerous radioactive dust that is in the air after a nucelar explosion
Source: Oxfords Advaced Learnes Dictionary.
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:00 pm
by Malta Soron
Where does this dust come from? Why is it radioactive?
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:26 am
by Xandax
It comes from the explosion and it is radioactive due to it beeing an explosion of nuclear material.
If you have ever seen a picture of TV-shot of a nuclear bomb, then you will have seen the "mushroom cloud" that appears at explosion. That cloud consist of dust from the effects of the explosion, and because the explosion is nuclear it causes radiation which thus will cause the dust to be radioactive.
In the Fallout Universe - many such explosions have taken place (nuclear war/apocalyptic war) and such dust have been spread around in the atmosphere.
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 5:08 am
by Malta Soron
Thanks.