Subject: Re: Vegemite "USE BY 23 OCT 83" still okay :)

From: [email-masked] (kevin wilhite)
Date: 12 May 1995 18:51:11 GMT

One little known fact about vegemite is that it has been used 
successfully by scientists for a great many years in their dating 
processes.  It has been around much longer than is publicly 
acknowledged.  In fact, it was used by mariners in the south pacific region
to seal their canoes, by Minoan traders on the Mediteranean for the same 
purpose, and recent evidence points to its use by the Picts for making
weatherproof garments.
Its half life has been estimated to be 4.3 * 10e6 and its decay is much 
more stable than that of the carbon 14 process.

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