“When phosphate fertilizer is spread on the tobacco fields year after
year, the concentration of lead-210 and polonoium-210 in the soil
rises.” When the soil is stirred up – by planting, plowing, wind,
whatever – radioactive particles drift into the air, attach to dust and
other particulates there. As these settle back down to the ground, they
are often trapped by the naturally sticky leaves of the tobacco plant.
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