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If you're interested in other artifacts, you might also be interested in Fiestaware, some colors of which had U in the glaze until the mid forties. Here's one f

If you're interested in other artifacts, you might also be interested in Fiestaware, some colors of which had U in the glaze until the mid forties. Here's one from my collection, moderately active. For comparison, background is about 0.2 µSv/hour. https://imgur.com/a/U11rTao https://imgur.com/a/U11rTao And then there's the Revigator. I have no idea how many people died from this thing. https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/jars/revigator-1924-1926.html https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactiv...

dav_Oz 2y ago
Interestingly, the most toxic thing about the Revigator wasn't its added "radioactivity" through Radon to the water but its leaden spout combined with the impurities leaked considerable amount of arsenic, lead and vanadium into the water[0] [0]https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2010/01/what-were-they-drinking-researchers-investigate-radioactive-crock-pots https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2010/01/what-were-they...
- imglorp 2y ago
  Interesting! Nice find.
soperj 2y ago
haha, the Revigator had a lead spout. So it was poisoning you many different ways!
tananaev 2y ago
Revigator did prevent illnesses like arthritis by killing you with cancer before you can develop them.
- lazide 2y ago
  Oddly, Radon therapy does seem to show some significant long term benefit for arthritis. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14673618/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14673618/] God knows why - maybe the bodies natural healing mechanisms when dealing with low level radiation reduces the inflammation? Or short term spike, causes longer term downregulation? [https://www.redjournal.org/article/S0360-3016(22)00357-1/fulltext https://www.redjournal.org/article/S0360-3016(22)00357-1/ful...] [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859747/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859747/] Either way, longer term pain reduction does seem to be supported with randomized trials.

dav_Oz 2y ago

Interestingly, the most toxic thing about the Revigator wasn't its added "radioactivity" through Radon to the water but its leaden spout combined with the impurities leaked considerable amount of arsenic, lead and vanadium into the water[0] [0]https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2010/01/what-were-they-drinking-researchers-investigate-radioactive-crock-pots https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2010/01/what-were-they...

imglorp 2y ago
Interesting! Nice find.

soperj 2y ago

haha, the Revigator had a lead spout. So it was poisoning you many different ways!

tananaev 2y ago

Revigator did prevent illnesses like arthritis by killing you with cancer before you can develop them.

lazide 2y ago
Oddly, Radon therapy does seem to show some significant long term benefit for arthritis. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14673618/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14673618/] God knows why - maybe the bodies natural healing mechanisms when dealing with low level radiation reduces the inflammation? Or short term spike, causes longer term downregulation? [https://www.redjournal.org/article/S0360-3016(22)00357-1/fulltext https://www.redjournal.org/article/S0360-3016(22)00357-1/ful...] [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859747/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859747/] Either way, longer term pain reduction does seem to be supported with randomized trials.