How about calling your local fire or police department. As first
responders to a possible nuclear hazard I'm sure someone has a geiger
counter.
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/24/2011 6:10 AM, SwissPace wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Knowing the wealth of knowledge on this list I am looking for advice on
> how to see if a blue topaz ring I bought my wife is radioactive.
>
> I bought a lovely Blue topaz ring whilst in India and then googled to
> see what it meant only to find natural Blue topaz is very very rare and
> normally they take topaz place it in a nuclear reactor and then heat
> treat it to save the blue colour. There are two methods of doing this,
> one safer than the other, Normally this is well regulated but I am not
> confident that would be the case in India, so the question is how can I
> found out if it is radioactive and if so if its dangerously so, I
> believe from my research a Geiger counter is the wrong item and I really
> don't want to buy one for this time only.
>
> I am thinking of leaving it with a normal ring as control on some
> photographic or Xray film to see if it affects it but I wonder if anyone
> on the list has better suggestions.
>
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