This is good, cheap glow tape-Mark flashlights to find in the dark

Seriously, does anybody even know what avirulent insipidity means? :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ve read it on the internet, so it must be true. :slight_smile:

Pfft. It’s the opposite of virulent sipidity, of course.

Sure it’s not from Chernobyl?

Because Estonia is known for consumer protection and product testing. :stuck_out_tongue:

At best, it’s phosphors and normally, this stuff is encased in plastic or mixed with clear lacquer to be painted on such thing as watches.

As long as the OP knows what he’s bought and trusts the product. Or not….

I’m thinking it’s only a slow-decay phosphor if they claim a half-life of 24hrs. Ie, it won’t glow brightly and also fade quickly, but glow dimly but for a much longer time.

at this price you can’t expect tritium

Well then the claims about it not needing any kind of power or energy to glow are false.
Because only tritium does that.

I think I have to order some. Just to see where does it ship from? :wink:

Great idea!! If you do, please keep us posted. Who knows, it might be from very close to you since your in Estonia. :wink:

If your seeing an unexplained glow in the sky at night…… this may explain it. :smiley:

Years ago NPR had a story about US Radium in New Jersey, I found a similar story in Wikipedia
Radium Girls
How would you think something like a watch dial would have such an impact on someones life.

I bought a tape with the same pictures and similar price. It doesn’t glow forever but glows for long, I haven’t determined duration.

Wow… that’s a sad story & a pitiful commentary on their employer. :frowning:
Thanks for sharing, I had never heard of this.

I knew about the Radium Girls, anybody who doesn’t, and thinks your job sucks should click that link.

ok i am OP

here is what i know
it is cheap - it cannot be tritium

it does glow all night - maybe it would eventually fade but i have not tried to keep any in the dark for a week to see what it does

when i said it does not need light charging, that was for 12 hours

when i was a kid though, i had an old big ben westclox alarm clock, and you could see sparkles on its glowing hands, if you looked very closely
with good kid eyesight
i was told, maybe this is wrong, that those were gamma rays hitting the phosphor stuff, making it sparkle
i don;t really know
maybe the thing had some radium in the paint, this was the 60s, and it was really radium decay

i assumed when the new tape lasted all night, that it was this gamma hitting phenomenon
now i don;t really know

but i assume radium is also out, due to expense and legalities

maybe i will put some in a dark box for a week and see if that is still visible at night in the complete dark like the 12 hour glow

i will probably find that it does gradually fade out, it just takes more than 12 hours,
there are no gamma ray sparkles, and what i saw before may have been radium paint,

wle

The show I saw, not sure if it was the same one, was really sad. It showed pictures of the girls faces. The ones that survived were a mess.

/\… That is horrible…… :frowning:

Yes I read the book - it said some of the workers actually glowed in the dark - you could see their skeletons through their skin.

This was before they seemed sick.
The radium glow was thought to be healthy.
There were people who knew that was a lie, the bosses, but they of course didn;t say it.
They at one point told the workers not to ‘point the brushes’ with their lips, and gave them rubber doohickeys to do that with.
But the workers didn’t like those and went back to lips.
The bosses knew all this and didn’t enforce it, since that made the work faster.

The book is just called “Radium Girls”. It’s fairly recent. Great book, terrible story.

There is a movie that came out last year. Not sure if it’s available on any of the streaming services or otherwise.

anybody have a gieger-counter meter to test this tape for any extreme nuclear radiation! its made from the elephant’s foot probably.