I saw what the radium did to people in a documentary about the period of elements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_jaw Radium is closely related to Calcium and hence the body absorbs radium and stores it where radium use to be stored – in the skeleton. and most often in the jaw bones.
/Magnus From: gregebert Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 6:11 PM To: neonixie-l Subject: [neonixie-l] Re: OT: Radioactive clock And just because it no longer glows, does NOT mean it's no longer radioactive. Radium half-lifes in 1600 years; the 'glow agents' deplete after a few years. I dont know how dangerous these items are, though. Radium undergoes alpha particle decay, and those particles are easily stopped. Even a paper bag will block alpha particles. But if you were to ingest an alpha-particle emitter, that will be bad. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6c6ffb3f-5ef8-47fe-9e8f-c21473168e26%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. --- Detta e-postmeddelande har sökts igenom efter virus med antivirusprogram från Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/DB784E7651144866B936BC197CF39CBC%40MK. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
