[Magdalen] Book I am now reading

[Scott Knitter]

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/are-glow-dark-watches-radiation-hazard


Apparently phosphorescent paint or tritium. I'd guess new watches would
have the harmless paint. Tritium is radioactive but at such a very low
level.

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 9:15 PM Suzie Buchanan <buchanan.suzie at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Radium Girls is a good read and heartbreaking story. I’m currently in my
> tent at a parish camping trip and had just thought of that book when I
> realized my new semi-smart Fossil watch has hands that glow in the dark. I
> wonder what is used today?
>
> Suz
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 3, 2019, at 12:01 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I finally got my reserved copy of “Where the Crawdads Sing” yesterday
> and stayed up nearly all night reading it. What a book! Of course, when I
> had to get up at 6 to give my daughter’s horse his medicine, I wasn’t so
> happy!
> >
> >> On Aug 3, 2019, at 11:52 AM, Gillian Barr <gillian.barr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> A friend of mine works in historical aircraft restoration. When working
> on
> >> the Enola Gay they had to wear Geiger counters—not because of the
> nuclear
> >> bomb she dropped, but because of the radium on the instrument dials.
> >>
> >> Popping out of lurkdom,
> >>
> >> Gillian Barr
> >> Stonington CT
> >>
> >>> On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 11:39 AM Dorothy Collman <dac7792 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Our September selection for my church's Ladies Literary Fellowship is
> >>> "Radium Girls" by Kate Moore. It tells the story of the young women who
> >>> worked painting clock faces in the early 20th century and were fatally
> >>> poisoned by the radium in the paint.
> >>>
> >>> <https://www.sourcebooks.com/radium-girls.html>
> >>>
> >>> When I was living in Watford I took a pottery class at the local
> technical
> >>> college. The instructor told us not to eat, drink or smoke in the
> classroom
> >>> because of the possibility of getting some of the chemicals into our
> >>> mouths. The raw glazes contained lead, tin, cobalt, et al. Toxic, but
> not
> >>> radioactive.
> >>>
> >>> - - -
> >>> Dorothy Collman
> >>> Home: DottieAnne at aol.com
> >>> List: dac7792 at gmail.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Jul 29, 2019, at 10:28 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> >>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Someone was rummaging through some old storage areas of the\local
> >>> Wilkes-Barre City Hall and found four 9' diameter clock faces in a
> >>> cubbyhole  there.
> >>>> It was determined that they were from the Luzerne County Court
> >>> Housewhich had a tall clock tower and clock complete with bells to mark
> >>> thehours.  That court house building had been raised and the site made
> >>>> into a public square in 1909.  The innards of the clock, made of iron
> >>> andsteel were melted down in 1942 for the WW-2 effort.
> >>>> Court houses in general in Pennsylvania tend to rival many state
> >>> capitolbuildings, and are the source of much pride.  The new Luzerne
> >>> CountyCourt House is domed with four wings, and has a very
> >>> impressiveinterior not unlike the PA Capitol building down the road at
> >>> Harrisburg.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >> Gillian R. Barr
> >> Providence, RI
>


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA