By the way, your review in Nature was just excellent - solid & thoughtful & clear & exactly what one would expect of you.
Apparently NYC mayor Jimmy Walker was a fan of drinking "radium water," undaunted by the death of Eben Myers. #TILpic.twitter.com/wMqQieB81O
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Thanks, Ann! I value your praise highly. :-) Hope all is well.
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All IS well. I'm just easily rattled.
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I found this at an antiques fair... "Radium Shine". It was a fake. Geiger counter said zip. Not a peep.pic.twitter.com/VpKt2m3PZY
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If it's an alpha source, a Geiger counter wouldn't register radiation. Alphas can't penetrate G-M tube's wall.
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I've got a G-M detector with a mica window. It reads alphas well. It's got selectable shields for β/γ discrimination.
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But this bad boy pocket watch is the real deal. 5 minute count of the hour hand. 21uSv/h!pic.twitter.com/qDycxb67XO
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Safe. Equals 2 millirems/hr, for old schoolers. 10 is standard basic caution rate.
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That era presented more quacks than Horicon Marsh. Then those Roentgen machines that created fatal attraction, observing bones.
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