Sibilant onomatopoeia.
A lot of people will tell you, Uranium’s unstable spawn, cesium-137, is not the kind of isotope you want to invite home for dinner. Unfortunately in certain parts of Japan the radioisotope reared its ugly rays (The amount is extremely low and so not thought to be a danger to health.). This is the kind of unstable element that hiccups radiation for decades before fading out. It’s a real man’s radioisotope, hanging out mostly in your muscle tissue like a gym rat. Fortunately, the body is good at housekeeping (especially with a little help from Prussian blue to wash it down). Within 10-100 days of sucking down some cesium, your body will give half of it the boot. This isn’t to say that the element decays nearly as fast. Cesium-137’s half life is 30.17 years. Better out than in, though.
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