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Old 15 October 2013, 09:04 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by smith one View Post
I thought the corrosion on older tritium Pam's was due to the dial/hands and the tritium gasses emitted in a somewhat sealed environment?
The tritium paint alters over this relatively short length of time (<13 years) but that's about it. I would say that you're thinking about Radium which is much, much more "potent" and causes deterioration of the upper dial, etc. - particularly since we're now talking about 50+ years... .
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