In the early part of the last century, young women in Illinois were hired to paint watch and clock dials with a special ...

A 1985 advice column in the Chicago Sun-Times describes the history of Radium Dial Co., which continued operating under a different name — and exposing workers to radioactive materials — until ...

The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used to come home glowing in the dark. Then they found that the exposure ...

In the 1930s, a German-Jewish chemist resettled his family in neutral Turkey. But his work on radioactive materials and poison gas was still of interest to the Nazi regime.

Tritium operates under the same chemical principles as radium — the material undergoes decay, releasing electrons that trigger zinc sulfide to glow. Tritium, however, is significantly less radioactive ...

Of course, if all the radium which ever existed in the universe has now been converted into helium, and if a new stock of ra- rlium is not being manufactured out of other materials, then' the ...

Success stories and future plans for the Global Radium-226 Management Initiative were in focus at a meeting held in Vienna last week. ... International transfers of radioactive material are complex ...

Dec. 18—All was well in late April as the U.S. Army Corps laid out its plans for the first phase of cleaning the Niagara Falls Storage Site in Lewiston. The site at 1397 Pletcher Road was used ...

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Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the radioactive fingerprints she left behind.

THE novel and unforeseen property of radium of producing energy, which purely kinetic theories, in opposition to the notion of inherent force as a transcendental element, do not seem able to ...

All was well in late April as the U.S. Army Corps laid out its plans for the first phase of cleaning the Niagara Falls Storage Site in Lewiston. The site at 1397 Pletcher Road was used to store ...