Mystery Radium device

["Busby, Bruce" <bab1303@hub.doh.wa.gov>]

Hi All,

We, in the Great State of Washington, have started a new web page for 
"strange things we find in the trash" .
No really, we have found an object that we are trying to identify, a 
drawing of which is at:

  http://198.187.0.42:80/ehp/rp/default.htm#mystery

It contains roughly (very roughly) 1 uCi of Radium and it does not glow 
in the dark (tried). The round "head" has a clear plastic section over 
the radium, with orange-ish-red plastic top and bottom of the clear part. 
 Sizes are indicated on the drawing.  No one here has seen anything like 
it before, but general consensus is that it looks military in origin.  
Anyone who has a minute can stop by the web site and see if they can tell 
what it is.

Thanks!

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Bruce Busby   W - bab1303@hub.doh.wa.gov  H - babusby@aol.com
Radiation Health Physicist - Washington State Department of Health
Radiation Protection Division - Radioactive Materials Section     
7171 Cleanwater Lane, Building 5, PO Box 47827
Olympia, WA      98504-7827
Phone: 360-236-3222      Fax: 360-236-2255
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