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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 from my collection, moderately active. For comparison, background is about 0.2 µSv/hour.

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/radioactiv...


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...

Interesting! Nice find.
Revigator did prevent illnesses like arthritis by killing you with cancer before you can develop them.
Oddly, Radon therapy does seem to show some significant long term benefit for arthritis. [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/ful...] [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859747/]

Either way, longer term pain reduction does seem to be supported with randomized trials.

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

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