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Geiger Counter Going Off the Charts in an Antique Shop

submitted by pumkinandstorm

1 decade 9 months 3 weeks ago

WTF

(youtube) For some reason my friends and family no longer want to visit my museum.
They used to be interested in the rocks, watches and gauges from a bygone era. Until I demonstrated with my geiger counter what their eyes could not see.

3 Comments

Why the wtf tag?

The one millisievert dose you would get standing close to the more excitable exhibits for an hour is actually not that dangerous... it's equivalent to one year's worth of background radiation. Moral of the story: Look, but don't linger.

http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/

Radium has a half-life of 1600 years and stops glowing after about 20-It's behind glass (watch crystal) so one was shielded from direct bombardment-The casualties from the process came with the paint girls in the preparation and assembly of the illuminated faces and hands, who used lippointing (brush-lickers) to straighten their brushes....that we're dipped in radioactive paint-Nasty bone cancer of the jaw in worst cases.

200 old watches in a display case isn't anything to worry your testicular function over, but you don't want your cat lying on a pile of em...

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