mikerault
Contributor
Speaking of sharks teeth...when I was working in the Nuclear Power industry I was at a frisking station (a place you run a radiation meter over you to determine if you have become contaminated) when the guy behind me sets off the meter, really pegged it. The tech comes over and re-does the scan and right over his breast bone ges the hit. The guy takes off his shirt and there is a nice, black, fossilized sharks tooth on a chain. He takes it off and sure enough he passes the scan.
We took the tooth over to the chem lab and put it on a gamm spectrometer, the most perfect Radium spectrum you've ever seen comes up. Radium is in the Calcium chemical family, seems the tooth as it fossilized exchanged calcium for radium in whatever place it fossilized.
So...I guess the point of this is...you might want to get your collection checked out as it may be exposing you to some radiation...beleive me the body doesn't care if the radiation is man-made or comes completely from nature, it still takes the damage.
Mike
We took the tooth over to the chem lab and put it on a gamm spectrometer, the most perfect Radium spectrum you've ever seen comes up. Radium is in the Calcium chemical family, seems the tooth as it fossilized exchanged calcium for radium in whatever place it fossilized.
So...I guess the point of this is...you might want to get your collection checked out as it may be exposing you to some radiation...beleive me the body doesn't care if the radiation is man-made or comes completely from nature, it still takes the damage.
Mike