[Rockhounds] Ice question ?

[Rik Dillen]

Hi JR, I'm sorry, but I don't know nothing about tritium gun sights (or
other parts of any kind of weapons...), so I won't be able to answer your
question...
Wish you good luck with all those splendid ice crystals that are ready to be
collected at your place !
Cheers,

Rik DILLEN 
E-mail rik.dillen at skynet.be 
Homepage : http://users.skynet.be/rik.dillen 

MINERANT 2009
9-10/5/2009
Antwerp Expo - Antwerpen - Belgium
www.minerant.org

-----Original Message-----
From: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com
[mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of J. R. Hodel
Sent: maandag 19 januari 2009 13:11
To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
Subject: [Rockhounds] Ice question ?

Hi Rik:

I have thousands of millions of ice crystals now, 4 inches of them all over
about 100(+/-) acres of WV hillside.  Maybe the rock-hounding aspects of ice
are almost exhausted, now.
But if the Tritium-based heavy water is highly radioactive with a short
half-life, as mentioned recently by one of our highly educated contributors,
how can so-called tritium gun sights (which I used just a couple of weeks
ago - we visited a very professionally operated indoor pistol range while on
vacation... ) be manufactured and used for years?
It didn't LOOK radioactive!  ;-)  on the pistol...  I know, just saying.
Well, I've got to get going now, 3 or 4 more inches coming, but I have an
appointment to get the hubs packed.
Axel, Little Liza wasn't as obscure as I thought, if Harry Belafonte AND
Burl Ives did versions.  It was also in my wife's Girl Scout song book.  I
was a Cub Scout, but we didn't use a song book...  if I recall correctly
Keep on rockin'!
JR