[Spridgets] Someone is lying to us!

BJNoSHOV8 bjshov8 at tx.rr.com
Sat May 14 14:56:47 MDT 2011


>>> They put Radium in our wrist watches to make them
>>> glow in the dark and people's hands didn't fall off.
>> True, but the women who painted the dials died horrible deaths from
>> radiation poisoning.

I have a couple of watches with the tritium tubes.  As I understand they 
have a fluorescent compound on the inside surface of the glass and are 
filled with tritium.  They aren't as bright as a good dive watch with 
good lume, but the tritium tubes glow all night and the normal lume will 
gradually darken over a few hours.  The tubes are less than 1mm 
diameter, I can only guess what kind of machine it takes to manufacture 
them.  I've read that the radiation in the tubes is very low powered and 
doesn't even penetrate the thin glass.


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