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Old Hamilton Watch Radium Hands/Numbers Still Active-Safe? "Click" to Login or Register 
Mark Nathanson
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Picked up an old Hamilton Tourneau watch. Has radium hands and numbers. They still glow. Is it safe to wear? Thanks.
 
Posts: 206 | Location: Northern New York USA | Registered: January 06, 2006
Tom Huber
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Mark, I think what you mean is "radium" hands. Radon is the gas which is emitted from a radium base element.

Tom
 
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Mark Nathanson
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Yep, made an error, thanks.
 
Posts: 206 | Location: Northern New York USA | Registered: January 06, 2006
Donald B. Dahlberg
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As long as you do not eat it or in any other way put it INTO your body, you are OK. The range of the radiation is very short and cannot penetrate the watch body.

The women who painted the numbers would lick the brushes to keep a fine point. They were eating it and painting their lips day after day.

Don
 
Posts: 173 | Location: Columbia, Pennsylvania U.S.A. | Registered: July 13, 2004
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