#radium

[elementcattos]

Be proud of the chemical miracle you are!

[radium-official]

[elitecabela]

STEP TO THE HARDCORE.

[questionableadvice]

~ Undark, 1921

“Does Undark really contain radium? Most assuredly."

Undark was produced by the US Radium Corporation and was the product used by the "Radium Girls" to paint the dials of wristwatches. It also caused many of them to die painful deaths with the full knowledge of the Corporation.

More about the Radium Girls and the corrupt US Radium Corporation found here* and of course in Kate Moore's book The Radium Girls.

*warning for one historic picture of the effects of radium and a lot of descriptions of an evil corporation being evil

[radiantradium]

1981 Women's Day Magazine

[gayforestposts]

Rip to the radium girls, you would’ve loved OSHA

[aridlizzy]

Sync - an irradiated, ribbed blockset for L-TONES

An inert building set, with no particularly special properties. You begin to feel nauseous when the sun hits the blocks directly.

[mindblowingscience]

With a new molecule-based method, physicists peer inside an atom's nucleus

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" within a molecu

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" within a molecule. In a study appearing today in the journal Science, the physicists precisely measured the energy of electrons whizzing around a radium atom that had been paired with a fluoride atom to make a molecule of radium monofluoride. They used the environments within molecules as a sort of microscopic particle collider, which contained the radium atom's electrons and encouraged them to briefly penetrate the atom's nucleus.

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