While these are from the 2019 holiday season, my educated guess is that any similar ornaments sold in a tube from the Dollar Tree Stores in future years would have similar readings. I am quite concerned about the amount of Antimony found in these ornaments!
Below are the XRF readings
for each of the ornaments pictured here:
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Red ornament (on sparkles):
- Barium (Ba): 13,100 +/- 4,200 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 105,600 +/- 5,500 ppm
- Antimony (Sb): 129,200 +/- 3,400 ppm
- Molybdenum (Mo): 24,800 +/- 1,800 ppm
- Nb: 45,800 +/- 2,100 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 6,959 +/- 805 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 3,401 +/- 1,137 ppm
- Bromine (Br): 412,300 +/- 6,000 ppm
- Platinum (Pt): 6,062 +/- 1,905 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 33,000 +/- 1,800 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 4,552 +/- 1,296 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 45,300 +/- 4,100 ppm
- Indium (In): 1,771 +/- 883 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 13,000 +/- 3,800 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 140,900 +/- 7,300 ppm
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Green ornament (on sparkles):
- Barium (Ba): 13,100 +/- 3,700 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 65,300 +/- 3,800 ppm
- Antimony (Sb): 103,700 +/- 2,800 ppm
- Molybdenum (Mo): 16,200 +/- 1,700 ppm
- Nb: 30,500 +/- 2,100 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 4,619 +/- 784 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 3,007 +/- 1,050 ppm
- Bromine (Br): 384,700 +/- 5,400 ppm
- Platinum (Pt): 6,685 +/- 2,210 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 28,200 +/- 1,900 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 15,700 +/- 1,900 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 4,880 +/- 2,240
- Iron (Fe): 45,500 +/- 4,700 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 18,400 +/- 3,200 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 251,500 +/- 6,600 ppm
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Gold ornament (on sparkles):
- Chromium (Cr): 45,300 +/- 5,100 ppm
- Antimony (Sb): 133,300 +/- 5,000 ppm
- Molybdenum (Mo): 37,200 +/- 2,900 ppm
- Nb: 87,900 +/- 3,500 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 13,200 +/- 1,300 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 5,326 +/- 1,981 ppm
- Bromine (Br): 377,900 +/- 2,988 ppm
- Platinum (Pt): 8,077 +/- 2,988 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 34,500 +/- 2,600 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 6,875 +/- 2,089 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 55,500 +/- 6,300 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 16,900 +/- 4,600 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 148,900 +/- 9,000 ppm
Gold colored plastic tops of ornaments:
- Lead (Pb): 57 +/- 26 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): 27 +/- 9 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 307 +/- 56 ppm
- Antimony (Sb): 674 +/- 43 ppm
- Bromine (Br): 1,459 +/- 72 ppm
- Palladium (Pd): 12 +/- 5 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 290 +/- 52 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 202 +/- 68 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 3,282 +/- 390 ppm
- Indium (In): 34 +/- 13 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 530 +/- 118 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 3,387 +/- 326 ppm
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Some additional reading that may be of interest:
- More Christmas ornaments I have tested.
- More items from the Dollar Stores that I have tested.
- More things with glitter that I have tested.
- A post discussing the testing methodology that I use for the work reported on this blog.
As always, thank you for reading and for sharing my posts. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
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