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In the early part of the last century, young women in Illinois were hired to paint watch and clock dials with a special ...
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 ...
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.
The US Radium Corporation made these green-glowing paints, which they sold under the name "Undark". The workers, all women, painted highlights on about 250 watch dials each day, and were paid ...
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 ...
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 ...
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