Ok, just a fun note from the depths of Usenet... someplace I really should go back to hanging out in more.

"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die. In the words of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, this phenomenon may best be thought of as "Evolution in action.""

Best to remember this as "Stupid Chemist Tricks 202 - Things NOT to do with Plutonium"