It was still an imperceivable threat, was it not.  Were they warned about
the practice of using their tongues on the brush?  The Mad Hatters, and the
Nike shoe glues were/are all in the same league.

Guy Avenell
www.hpto.net

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> Guy wires:
>
> > The radiation from the old "Glow in the dark" watches was negligible.
> >  Assemblers still died from it.
>
> That is only sort of true. The women who worked for the Radium Dial
company
> were asked to make a fine tip on the end of the brushes that they used to
> paint the radium onto the watch hands by rolling the brush tip on their
> tongues, thus they ingested some small amount of radium during the course
of
> their employments.
>
> As apparently a consequence of that ingestion, they suffered leukemias,
> anemias and bone tumors slightly higher than the general population in
their
> old age, but not greatly so. For more information, see for example:
>
>      http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/40/046.html
>
> This is one of the case studies that I worked on for a few weeks when I
> worked at Nuclear Weapons Effects Laboratory at White Sands Missile Range
30
> years ago.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
>

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