Vintage smoking pipe: 164 ppm Lead in the black plastic “shank” (the part that goes in the smoker’s mouth!)

XRF reading for the black plastic of the pipe:
60-second reading

• Lead (Pb): 164 +/- 15 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 16 +/- 4 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 644 +/- 41 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,192 +/- 142 ppm
• Indium (In): 20 +/- 6 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 290 +/- 110 ppm

Wooden bowl of pipe
60-second reading

• Lead (Pb): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Barium (Ba): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• Selenium (Se): non-detect
• Silver (Ag): 18 +/- 3 ppm
• Palladium (Pd): 13 +/- 3 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 99 +/- 29 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 58 +/- 25 ppm
• Manganese (Mn): 1,712 +/- 242 ppm
• Indium (In): 38 +/- 6 ppm

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Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama