On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:35:59AM -0500, Bryon Daly wrote:

> Anyone have any ideas what that might be?

Radium, mixed with a phosphor, can make a nifty glow in the dark effect.
It used to be used extensively in watch dials. A friend of mine tells a
(possibly apocryphal) story how the makers of said dials used to lick
their fingers while assembling and years later a number of them had
cancerous growths in their tongues...


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