Posted by Paul in MN on February 19, 2009 at 17:00:55 from (71.210.145.128):
In Reply to: Re: coal oil posted by buickddeere on February 19, 2009 at 15:49:38:
How's this for a suprise?? What gives off the intense white light in the Coleman mantle is a radioactive substance (maybe an isotope of Uranium?). Before discovering this I frequently carried an extra mantle in my pack or back pocket as I worked in a remote Boy Scout camp for 3 full summers. We used the Coleman lanterns every night. I discovered this "factoid" a few years later while working as a high school physics teacher and playing around with a geiger counter and common substances. The mantle really sets off the geiger counter.
Now who wanted to go back to those "good old days"??
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