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Old 29-June-2007, 01:39 AM
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Originally Posted by snarkophilus View Post
If you're worried about ingestion, you could partition the pool like a sandwich, laying a sheet of plastic or tempered glass under which any dissolved metals would remain.
I'd recommend eating your Tums before jumping in, just in case. Calcium will tend to block strontium absorption. That's the issue (well, one of the issues) I'd have with this: strontium is bioactive.

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Did I mention that I think this idea is amazingly cool?
Cool, audacious, and completely impractical.
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