Warning: Do not store vintage watches with radium lume in an air tight box!

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Shoot sorry I’m late didn’t realize the thread got funky here is hairy everything should be good now

No cats to page 3 :whipped:


This reminds me of the thread about Australia. @STANDY shared his favorite fishing spot.

https://omegaforums.net/threads/not...a-want-to-kill-you.52439/page-30#post-1566058

Clearly a little foot xray would not scare an Aussie.

Why would Aussies need a X-ray 😕
 
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I just want to point out that the unit bq/m3 has "m3" (i.e. cubic meters, which is volume) in the denominator. If you don't understand the relevance of this to the topic of this thread, then I suggest you stop posting threads like this.
I'd be grateful if you could expand.

A afaw34
I don't want my storage container to be coated in radioactive lead particles..
Its decay chain involves quite a few radioactive materials. Lead is an odd choice to be worried about. I'd be more worried about the polonium. But maybe that's because I live in London, where the Russians made a bit of a mess with polonium a few years back.

I don't understand why the guy hasn't just sold the damned watch by now.

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I'd be grateful if you could expand.

In general, toxicity is related to the total dose that you are exposed to. So if there is a high concentration in a tiny volume, that's not necessarily meaningful. The toxic level of radon is generally expressed in concentration units under the assumption that those are the ambient conditions under which you are living or working (and breathing) consistently for many hours per day. Not the concentration in a tiny volume compared to a single tidal volume of your lungs. I have done this calculation before and posted it in a different thread to demonstrate that inhaling one breath of a high concentration of radon represents a negligible dose compare to the background levels that you inhale multiple times per minute, 24 hours a day.
 
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In general, toxicity is related to the total dose that you are exposed to. So if there is a high concentration in a tiny volume, that's not necessarily meaningful. The toxic level of radon is generally expressed in concentration units under the assumption that those are the ambient conditions under which you are living or working (and breathing) consistently for many hours per day. Not the concentration in a tiny volume compared to a single tidal volume of your lungs. I have done this calculation before and posted it in a different thread to demonstrate that inhaling one breath of a high concentration of radon represents a negligible dose compare to the background levels that you inhale multiple times per minute, 24 hours a day.
Thanks - we are on the same page then.
 
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I'll bet that chick has radium coated buckles on her shoes, fashion sense is important.
I dread to think what it is she's holding in her hand.
 
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It does look like one, doesn't it?
Literally the first thing I thought too.

Also, the address is the Bradbury Building in downtown LA, where Blade Runner (and a million other TV shows and movies) was shot.
 
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I dread to think what it is she's holding in her hand.

C’mon now! It’s obviously a very small banana, or a country-fair-winning white asparagus.
 
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C’mon now! It’s obviously a very small banana, or a country-fair-winning white asparagus.
This doesn't change things dramatically I'm afraid.
 
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Literally the first thing I thought too.

Also, the address is the Bradbury Building in downtown LA, where Blade Runner (and a million other TV shows and movies) was shot.
Why don’t a bunch of us write to them, complaining about our constipation and asking for free radium sample packs.