I have a couple of old alarm clocks with radium dials. My Geiger counter goes crazy when it’s next to them.
I also have some Uranium glass glasses and was surprised to get about 20-30 times background off of them. > On Oct 26, 2020, at 5:38 PM, Nick Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Right. Some are nil, some are screamers. The ones with bright red colors > from Congo and other areas seem to be hotter. I used to carry my little > Polimaster PM1703M to open houses at the annual home builders' show. > >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 3:55 PM Dan Hollis <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, 26 Oct 2020, Mac Doktor wrote: >> >> On Oct 26, 2020, at 3:05 PM, Nick Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> , yet willingly spend $12,000 for fancy granite countertops for their >> >> house that are most likely much more radioactive. >> > I tested the new granite kitchen counter at my brother's house. It was >> > only a few counts above background with an LND-712's alpha window resting >> > on it. >> >> The last granite outdoor benches I tested were 4x background. Pretty neat. >> >> -Dan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/neonixie-l/BL83MEnFSbA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAJD4P-i-X0fk-D7wvrxnq7mhiHToAJ-kqt8HkL82Q%2BMbFw088A%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/5C36F092-8579-40D7-941D-C381C3EE3862%40gmail.com.
