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GL173 Estimating the activity of radium-painted dials
This explains how to estimate the radioactivity of instruments which have dials painted with radium paint. Such dials are now getting very old and the paint will be deteriorating and possibly flaking off. It is time such devices were disposed of, but to do this it's necessary to have some idea of how radioactive they are.