#Leaded: 1946 Hardy Boys Book

1946 Hardy Boys Book. The Secret Panel. Hardcover.
Cover Image (brown paint): 1334 +/- 48 ppm lead
& 144 +/- 34 ppm arsenic.
Interior pages: 32 +/- 10 ppm lead.
Tested with an XRF instrument.

Personally I avoid letting my children use vintage books, because they almost always test positive for lead (plus we live near Powell’s, one of the largest book stores in the world (!), so that makes it easy to go find a new, lead-free copy!)

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