{"id":195168,"date":"2008-07-25T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/25\/the-next-thing-to-kill-you-granite-countertops\/"},"modified":"2008-07-25T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T22:25:00","slug":"the-next-thing-to-kill-you-granite-countertops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/25\/the-next-thing-to-kill-you-granite-countertops\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Thing to Kill You: Granite Countertops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like someone has finally noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/24\/garden\/24granite.html?partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">granite actually contains small quantities of Uranium which decay into Radon gas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ummm&#8230;I&#8217;ve know that for years, but I went to school in New England, where granite is a major source of Radon.<\/p>\n<p>Had a discussion with Harry Stubbs, pen name Hal Clement, where he said that his being in a trench about a mile from a nuclear blast in the 1950s exposed him to less radiation than hanging in his basement..He ran the numbers for us, actually.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of radiation is small, but it might effect resale value, so if you are getting the counters installed, you might want to have a technician measure the radiation level before installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like someone has finally noticed that granite actually contains small quantities of Uranium which decay into Radon gas. Ummm&#8230;I&#8217;ve know that for years, but I went to school in New England, where granite is a major source of Radon. Had a discussion with Harry Stubbs, pen name Hal Clement, where he said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1088,1069],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}