So I have simply secured the clock while I mull over and continue to collect knowledge and information on how to get rid of it.įor your information, this is a very high quality French carriage clock. While I would like to get rid of this clock I have higher priority tasks and projects on my plate. My home is well-isolated from neighbours. I have placed it in a corner of my home where no one goes and where the direction of the radiation points away from the closest possible inhabited area. I have placed it in 3 layers of plastic bags to prevent air exchange and contamination from handling. It penetrates the glass but not the metal casing, at least not in appreciable amounts. Using my new Geiger counter, I have determined how the radiation emits from the dial. It is simpler to hang on to it while I figure out how best to get rid of it. So for the moment I have simply secured it. As RJ has found out, it can also be very difficult to get any help from the government. I will not just give it or sell it to someone else knowing that it is potentially a health hazard. It's essentially my own responsibility so long as no one else is exposed to it while in my care. Do some research before concluding you have or do not have a radiated dial. Not all glow-in-the-dark or luminous dials were coated with radium. Insecticides can make you very sick and cause birth defects but they don't cause lung cancer from inhalation. Radium causes both cell death as well as mutations, there is nothing "possibly harmful" about it unlike food preservatives. Unlike lead, there is no dosage for radium that the body can tolerate. Unlike smoke, you can't tell you have radium on your hands unless you have a Geiger counter or some other detector. Radium and other deadly radioactive material, contrary to what Bob Croswell said, is not like ".secondhand tobacco smoke, lead, food preservatives, insecticides, and other hazards in our environment.". There are only a few spots on the dial but what is there *is* very hot. The radium on this clock of mine is no laughing matter. These hits are indicated by a flashing red light as well as crackling noise from its speaker. When you watch the videos you will see I eventually locate a very hot spot and the needle on the Geiger counter jumps and I get a lot of streams of hits. So the farther the detector is from a spot, the less it is able to collect the total gamma and beta emissions from a spot.Īs I move the Geiger counter around, the sensor is being placed at various alignment with the various hot spots on the dial. The sensor has a small aperture and is set at the back of a shielded tunnel about an inch inside the Geiger counter while the hot spots on the clock dial radiate in a 360° 3-dimensional pattern. I move the Geiger counter around to locate a direct alignment between a hot spot on the dial and the tiny sensor inside the Geiger counter. The emissions from the dial come from small beads of radium/zinc oxide on the minute markers and tips of the hands. In this video, if you watch the complete video, I gradually bring my Geiger counter closer to the clock until it is directly in front of the glass, about 2-3 cm from the dial. I used a Mac and Apple software to create these files so there are absolutely no Windows viruses or whatever. Just click on the file to initiate download. Here is -> the webpage listing these files
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