Re: Sayonara, good people

[Crash Gordon® <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Man...they ban all the good stuff! Lead, mercury, radium, tobacco, =
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"Robert L. Bass" <robertlbass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message =
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> > speedometers...
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> Pre-1950 that was likely radium.  There was a famous lawsuit on behalf =
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> group of women who used to paint watch dials with radium.  They were =
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> to moisten the tips of the small paint brushes with their mouths.  =
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> they ingested lots of radium and many developed cancer.  After that =
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> luminescent dials were made of tritium or phosphorous compounds.  =
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> less dangerous than radium but it, too, has been phased out since it's =
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> a carcinogen.
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> Regards,
> Robert L Bass
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