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Re: Radium illumination
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2010 Sep 05, 17:20 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2010 Sep 05, 17:20 -0700
Or maybe one can just buy new radium paint. This auction just ended. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350376559549 gl On 9/5/2010 5:13 PM, Gary LaPook wrote: > According to wikipedia after they changed the procedure for painting > watch dials that the problem went away and no more watch workers > suffered from radiation and that they still used radium on watches > through the '60s. > > gl > > On 9/5/2010 4:42 PM, Apache Runner wrote: >> George wrote: >> >> "However, because of the short range of the alphas, it has to be >> intimately >> mixed in with the Radium. There lies the problem." >> >> Yes, I concur, I had to look up the decay products. >> >> There was this famous problem of people who painted watch faces with >> radium paint and ended up getting cancer from licking the brushes. >> I heard somewhere that modern rifle scopes use tritium for >> illumination of the reticles. >> >> >> > >
