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Post by dragonblaster on Oct 19, 2008 5:42:19 GMT -4
As I've pointed out to a few "belties", if you have a radium watch, you have a nasty source of radiation strapped right to your forearm for a sizable portion of the day.
The naked dials are hazardous to handle and need special precautions for disposal - they certainly should never be tossed out in the normal household refuse.
In the case of radium watches, this is the same radiation that caused the bones of a group of girls and young women to rot away in the 1930s. They died agonising and horrible deaths due to daily exposure to the very stuff that makes your watch hands glow in the dark and is kept millimetres away from your skin.
However, you don't hear of the same thing happening to the watch owners, because the thin layer of metal in the watch back, and the thin layer of slightly leaded glass on the front stop the radiation from getting out.
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