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How high is the density?

The article doesn't say what the density of depleted uranium is, other than stating that it's "very high". I'm sure that some details on this would improve the article. - Soulkeeper (talk) 14:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The density of uranium is 19.1 g/mL. Depleted uranium is essentially the same (in principle, depleted uranium should be a tiny bit more dense, but I wouldn't expect the difference to be larger than about one part in ten thousand). --Itub (talk) 15:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"photografic evidence"

I removed this sentence:

Photographic evidence of destroyed equipment suggests that DU was first used during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Various written reports cite information that was obtained as a consequence of that use. There is no reliable source for that. The given source says:

Photographic evidence of destroyed equipment suggests that DU was first used during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Various written reports cite information that may have been obtained as a consequence of that use.

It doesn´t give any further sources, and also no photos. It seems not to be possible to find evidence for he use of DU "by photos". The source isn´t serious.77.2.121.72 (talk) 16:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Biased graph

[moving this here for better visibility, referring to the graph at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Basrah_birth_defects.gif ] It is interesting that the only source directly and freely accessible on the internet is one that shows data stopping at 1998, while the last two years are said to come from Uranium in the Wind, 2004 edition. Until 1998, the incidence reached a maximum 7.76‰ congenital births. In the unaccessible information, the incidence seems to raise to about 9‰ in 1999 and to a significantly higher 17‰ in 2000.
There are two other biases on the graph that leave me unsatisfied. First, no historical serie for the congenital births in Basrah is shown before 1990. A reasonable study would show the data or at least estimate it for the Eighties. Secondly, and most importantly, we are now in 2008. Other data must be available to cover the pre-2003-war period and the successive intervention.
All in all, at least three things would make this graph credible:
1) an accessible source to the last two years covered in the graph;
2) a reasonable serie;
3) new data to support this congenital births anomaly with stronger evidence of a stable increase in the area (as depleted uranium would not lose its effect over this short period of time).

My suggestion is to remove the graph, because it gives a direct-impact visual information that is still generally unsustained from empirical findings. Billy Pilgrim (talk) 10:49, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is "Uranium in the Wind" inaccessable? Listing Port (talk) 19:57, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DOT-E 9649

Should there be a section relevant to the shipment of depleted uranium? Kgrr (talk) 14:12, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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