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Re: Radium illumination
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2010 Sep 05, 17:13 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2010 Sep 05, 17:13 -0700
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. > > >
