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Subject: radium glazes and cancer -- fiestaware, watches, and other products

Date: Thu Jan 23 10:01:04 2003
Posted by Armando Corbelle
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: Miami State/Province: FL Country: USA
Area of science: Other
ID: 1043334064.Ot
Message:

Many products in the 1950s had low-level forms of radiation -- watches with 
radium dials, Fiestaware with radioactive glazes, and others. Has there been 
any research on whether these products caused cancer? Some alarm clocks, for 
example, had radium dials. 


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