Green glowing powder emitting gammas

[Chuck Cooper <cooperc@teleport.com>]

  On another list discussing art materials, I ran across this recent post:



> I have green glow powder that says it is

> from the united states radium corp

>

> and it is radioactive - slightly

>

> my scintilating detector picks it up at a distance.



I can only assume that he has some old radium paint base, should I try 

to track this guy down?









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