Strontium

From Ganfyd

Element, in the same period of the table as Calcium, and unsurprisingly strongly incorporated into bone.

This gives two effects.

• Sr⁹⁰ is a long-lived fission product and if it is bound into bone provides a persisting radiation exposure of some considerable significance.

• Stable Strontium is presented as a treatment for osteoporosis, as strontium ranelate. Since Sr is a notably heavier nucleus than Calcium the density and capability to stop photons of the bone is significantly increased by merely replacing atoms (up to 10% may be achieved) of Calcium with Strontium - regardless of any consequent increase in strength or increase in Calcium content. Bone densitometry methods must be adjusted for this.^[1]

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