Well ... at least you probably don't want to knit your underwear out of coleman
lantern mantels, no matter how soft they seem to be...
Dick
----- Original Message ----
From: Bob Banever <bbane...@earthlink.net>
To: silver-list@eskimo.com
Sent: Fri, April 23, 2010 7:13:54 PM
Subject: Re: CS>A closer look at americium 241 from a smoke detector
Marshall,
Thanks for the info. I'll be sure to steer clear of Coleman lanterns for
now on!
Bob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall Dudley" <mdud...@king-cart.com>
To: <silver-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: CS>A closer look at americium 241 from a smoke detector
> Yes, if you look inside a Coleman lantern you will see one or two mantels,
> they are basically ash and easily break. If they break you have to replace
> them. They are covered with radioactive thorium.
>
> Marshall
>
> Bob Banever wrote:
>> Marshall,
>>
>> What is a Coleman Lantern mantel? I've heard of Coleman stoves and
>> lanterns used in camping... is this the same company?
>>
>> Bob
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall Dudley" <mdud...@king-cart.com>
>> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 8:55 AM
>> Subject: Re: CS>A closer look at americium 241 from a smoke detector
>>
>>
>>> Richard Goodwin wrote:
>>>> I thought I was being clearer than that. Not sure that radiation or
>>>> anything else has a "rightful" place where it "should" be, but the stuff
>>>> in the ground is certainly far from harmless -- how many people have died
>>
>>>> of cancer who lived in houses full of radon all their short lives?
>>>>
>>>> And yes, if you dig it up and concentrate it into something that is now
>>>> highly radioactive, and put it in your pocket, of course you will suffer
>>>> consequences. But why would you do that?
>>>
>>> Maybe because you didn't know. I carried a Coleman lantern mantel in my
>>> billfold for years before I found out that it is highly radioactive, giving
>>> me the equivalent of an X-ray almost hourly.
>>>
>>> Marshall
>>>
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