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8 common household items from the 1900s that were actually radioactive
From toothpaste to dinnerware to your grandfather’s watch, many of the everyday products sold ...
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Kate Moore's new book digs into the short, painful lives of the Radium Girls, who worked painting luminous dials on watches and clocks — and... Dark Lives Of 'The Radium Girls' Left A Bright Legacy ...
Over 100 years ago, radium was considered a "miracle element." It was used in products like makeup, elixirs, and clocks, where radium-infused paint was used to make them glow. But then, the workers ...
In the early days of the 20th century, the United States Radium Corporation had factories in New Jersey and Illinois, where they employed mostly women to paint watch and clock faces with their ...
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