Radioactivity
Very interesting thread and a good one for warning of these dangers. When I was a youngster I helped out at a local aeronautical museum in Oshawa, Ontario. I recall some study being conducted by the Fed's into various aircraft collections and the threat of radioactive elements contained in them. If I recall right, several German instruments from WW 2 were removed due to danger posed by radium in the paint used to mark the instruments as well as some of the interior components. They actually stated that constant close contact to the material could make you sick over time. There was also an interesting documentary on the tele at one point which discussed the sad situation around women hired during the war to hand paint radium medium onto watch faces and instruments. It showed an incredible proportion of these died of cancer related illnesses including many that could be directly related to the use of radium. Many got cancer's in the mouth because they did not know during the war that it was dangerous. They would wet their brushes with their tongue.
Very interesting thread and a good one for warning of these dangers. When I was a youngster I helped out at a local aeronautical museum in Oshawa, Ontario. I recall some study being conducted by the Fed's into various aircraft collections and the threat of radioactive elements contained in them. If I recall right, several German instruments from WW 2 were removed due to danger posed by radium in the paint used to mark the instruments as well as some of the interior components. They actually stated that constant close contact to the material could make you sick over time. There was also an interesting documentary on the tele at one point which discussed the sad situation around women hired during the war to hand paint radium medium onto watch faces and instruments. It showed an incredible proportion of these died of cancer related illnesses including many that could be directly related to the use of radium. Many got cancer's in the mouth because they did not know during the war that it was dangerous. They would wet their brushes with their tongue.
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