Re: FiestaWare -Reply

[fearp@VAX.CS.HSCSYR.EDU (Peter Fear)]

If this were so, then all of the fiestaware would be just as radioactive as
the others but some were not hot.

Pete

>Mark Winslow (among others) stated:
>
>>The primary radioactive contributor to fiestaware is uranium.
>>The uranium is a component of the glaze which gives it the bright orange
>color. 
>
>Could all you guys be wrong about the glaze?  I was in a class a couple
>weeks ago, and the instructor was firmly of the opinion that the uranium in
>Fiestaware is a natural component of the CLAY, not necessarily the GLAZE.
>
>Albert Lee Vest           The Ohio State University
>Health Physicist           Room 101 Research Center
>(614)292-1284                     1314 Kinnear Road
>vest.1@osu.edu               Columbus OH 43212-1168
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>

Peter Fear
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