AW: AW: [simpits-tech] "Unbelievable" but TRUE :P

[LT1_Z28]

Gene Buckle wrote:
> 
> Keep in mind that Radium was used as a glow-in-the-dark paint from its
> discovery (sometime in the very late 1800's I think) until (I think) the
> 1960's.  It was _heavily_ used in aircraft instrument faces as well as
> some clocks and many watches.

I have a radium-faced pocketwatch around here somewhere, but it's
completely sealed so I'm not overly concerned.
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Steve
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