Comments on: Is Your Granite Countertop Radioactive http://www.realtyofmarin.com/blog/2008/08/05/is-your-granite-countertop-radioactive/ Marin County Real Estate trends, information, schools, legal, events, recreation, & fun Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:41:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hothandbags http://www.realtyofmarin.com/blog/2008/08/05/is-your-granite-countertop-radioactive/comment-page-1/#comment-645 hothandbags Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:09:17 +0000 http://www.realtyofmarin.com/blog/?p=319#comment-645 Good post! Thanks for sharing with us, I'll recommend it to all my friends! And welcome to my blog <a href="http://www.eshoesblog.org/" rel="nofollow">shoes blog online</a>! Good post! Thanks for sharing with us, I’ll recommend it to all my friends! And welcome to my blog shoes blog online!

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]]> By: Granite Countertops Pennsylvania http://www.realtyofmarin.com/blog/2008/08/05/is-your-granite-countertop-radioactive/comment-page-1/#comment-520 Granite Countertops Pennsylvania Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:40:38 +0000 http://www.realtyofmarin.com/blog/?p=319#comment-520 I read this information in the New York Times. According to scientists, “the emissions from granite are insignificant compared with so-called background radiation that is constantly raining down from outer space or seeping up from the earth’s crust, not to mention emanating from manmade sources like X-rays, luminous watches and smoke detectors.” The E.P.A. only recommends taking action “if radon gas levels in the home exceeds 4 picocuries per liter of air (a measure of radioactive emission); about the same risk for cancer as smoking a half a pack of cigarettes per day.” No reason to be alarmed, folks. I read this information in the New York Times. According to scientists, “the emissions from granite are insignificant compared with so-called background radiation that is constantly raining down from outer space or seeping up from the earth’s crust, not to mention emanating from manmade sources like X-rays, luminous watches and smoke detectors.”

The E.P.A. only recommends taking action “if radon gas levels in the home exceeds 4 picocuries per liter of air (a measure of radioactive emission); about the same risk for cancer as smoking a half a pack of cigarettes per day.”

No reason to be alarmed, folks.

]]> By: Al http://www.realtyofmarin.com/blog/2008/08/05/is-your-granite-countertop-radioactive/comment-page-1/#comment-518 Al Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:25:48 +0000 http://www.realtyofmarin.com/blog/?p=319#comment-518 Oh, please don't prepare food directly on a granite countertop. Some of it is loaded with heavy metals like Cadium,lead,Arsenic, along with the leachable radioactive elements like uranium, polonium, and Radium. Granite is porous as well,NASA found over 100,000 bacteria per gram of stone, bacterial living and repoducing inside the stone itself. Use a cutting board, please! Oh, please don’t prepare food directly on a granite countertop. Some of it is loaded with heavy metals like Cadium,lead,Arsenic, along with the leachable radioactive elements like uranium, polonium, and Radium.

Granite is porous as well,NASA found over 100,000 bacteria per gram of stone, bacterial living and repoducing inside the stone itself.

Use a cutting board, please!

]]> By: Stone FAQ http://www.realtyofmarin.com/blog/2008/08/05/is-your-granite-countertop-radioactive/comment-page-1/#comment-514 Stone FAQ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:44:43 +0000 http://www.realtyofmarin.com/blog/?p=319#comment-514 Radioactive method (by an irradiation streams of elementary particles high energy with the help of the nuclear reactors working on uranium or plutonium) is usually hide from the consumers, it is the most dangerous to health a method of improvement of qualities of stones. At the best case consumer will be informed, that a mineral has irradiated. At full illiteracy of the population the consumer simply will not pay to it attention. And familiar to much badge of radiation beside will not be. Agate, cornelians, topazes, diamonds and other valuable and expensive minerals can be exposed to a radioactive irradiation. As an attribute of the irradiation, is unusual too bright or uncharacteristic color of a minerals, but not always. Radioactive method (by an irradiation streams of elementary particles high energy with the help of the nuclear reactors working on uranium or plutonium) is usually hide from the consumers, it is the most dangerous to health a method of improvement of qualities of stones. At the best case consumer will be informed, that a mineral has irradiated. At full illiteracy of the population the consumer simply will not pay to it attention. And familiar to much badge of radiation beside will not be. Agate, cornelians, topazes, diamonds and other valuable and expensive minerals can be exposed to a radioactive irradiation. As an attribute of the irradiation, is unusual too bright or uncharacteristic color of a minerals, but not always.

]]> By: Burlingame Real Estate http://www.realtyofmarin.com/blog/2008/08/05/is-your-granite-countertop-radioactive/comment-page-1/#comment-513 Burlingame Real Estate Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:22:59 +0000 http://www.realtyofmarin.com/blog/?p=319#comment-513 This is unbelievable...Considering that’s where I prepare my food! I have to get mine tested too! This is unbelievable…Considering that’s where I prepare my food! I have to get mine tested too!

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