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From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss
Subject: radium dial clocks, was: Microreactors
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:13:48 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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In <68701d73$0$17$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> writes:

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>I've read about the girls who painted the radioactive glow paint on 
>clocks, what a horrible way to go.  I had a 40's baby ben alarm clock 
>disassembled at the antique mall where I work, on a day when two Kent 
>State college girls were in.  They had with them a borrowed geiger 
>counter, and when I gave one of them the clock face to test, her eyes 
>got wide at the reading.  She told me "I wouldn't be touching that if I 
>were you".

I have a similar clock.  Here are the results from
a scan a decade ago:

"I checked your clock today.  The face surface reading 
is 15,000 cpm (Background = 50 cpm), and 58 microroentgens/hour 
(Background = 8 microroentgens/hour)...."


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