From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!lanl-a!crs
Newsgroups: net.med
Title: Re: Radioactive jewelry.
Article-I.D.: lanl-a.216
Posted: Wed Feb  2 12:40:10 1983
Received: Thu Feb  3 07:03:36 1983
References: dciem.164

I read recently (I don't recall where) that some manufacturers were
irradiating gem-stones (perhaps synthetic ones) to change or control
their color.  I no longer remember the details of the article but it
seems that jewelry was turning up with significant amounts of residual
radioactivity.  Sorry I can't remember where I read it; perhaps some-
one else can.

Charlie Sorsby