When tested with an XRF instrument the FAO Schwarz Merry Christmas musical snow globe train (pictured here) had the following readings:
#1) Red paint of train:
60-seconds
- Cadmium (Cd): 19 +/- 5 ppm
- Silver (Ag): 9 +/- 4 ppm
- Palladium (Pd): 6 +/- 3 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 662 +/- 145 ppm
- Indium (In): 25 +/- 7 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 1,441 +/- 269 ppm
#2) Black painted areas:
30-seconds
- Zinc (Zn): 172 +/- 31 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 2,687 +/- 130 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 424 +/- 150 ppm
#3) Gold painted areas:
60-seconds
- Platinum (Pt): 160 +/- 71 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 7,636 +/- 210 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 99,900 +/- 1,900 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 424 +/- 101 ppm
#4) Silver painted areas:
60-seconds
- Cadmium (Cd): 11 +/- 5 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 152 +/- 35 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 744 +/- 140 ppm
- Indium (In): 15 +/- 7 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 485 +/- 173 ppm
#5) White painted areas:
60-seconds
- Cadmium (Cd): 15 +/- 7 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 136 +/- 30 ppm
- Indium (In): 24 +/- 10 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 237,000 +/- 6,400 ppm
#6) Glass of snow globe:
60-seconds
- Lead (Pb): 53 +/- 9 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): 10 +/- 4 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 192 +/- 93 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 576 +/- 103 ppm
- Indium (In): 13 +/- 5 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 828 +/- 94 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 373 +/- 82 ppm
#7) Turner of music box
60-seconds
- Antimony (Sb): 2,565 +/- 198 ppm
- Bromine (Br): 18,900 +/- 400 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 388,000 +/- 2,500 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 479,900 +/- 2,500 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 98,000 +/- 1,100 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 3,188 +/- 303 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 5,759 +/- 1,072 ppm
As always, thank you for reading and for sharing my posts. I will likely update this post soon with more information, however in the meantime please check out the following links if you have questions:
- The testing methodology for all tests reported on on this blog.
- A video showing you how to search the blog most efficiently, given there are over 2,700 posts and pages here.
- My documentary feature film on childhood Lead poisoning.
Please let me know if you have any questions. With 1.165 Million unique readers in 2020 alone I am not always able to answer each and every question personally, but I do try.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
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