Undark
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Undark was a trade name for luminous paint made with a mixture of radioactive radium and zinc sulfide, as produced by the U.S. Radium Corporation between 1917 and 1926. The U.S. Radium Corporation was
Vial of Undark
Radium Girls
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The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint. The incidents occurred at three factories i
Undark
…general consumer use and marketed as glow-in-the-dark paint. The people working in the industry who applied the radioactive paint became known as the Radium Girls because many of them became ill, and most died from exposure to the radiation emitted by the radium contained within the product. The product was the…
Radium painters working in a factory
The former factory site in West Orange, New Jersey