On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:11:49 GMT, John Nickum
wrote:

|Anybody know if it's still possible to get thorium mantles of the sort
|fitted to tilley lamps from any place there days?
|
|It's actually for testing an old Geiger counter that was a Maplin kit.
|
|I'd have guessed that the thorium has been replaced by some other
|material these days, but I could be wrong.

If you live in a granite area, Cornwall, Scotland etc, the rock is mildly
radioactive. Are you traveling to a granite area sometime soon?
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