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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 women hired to paint dials came to be known as “ghost girls” because the radium dust to which they were exposed daily made their clothes, hair, and skin literally glow. Many of the women wore their best dresses on the job so the fabric would shine brilliantly when they went dancing after work.
8 Αυγ 2019 · The Radium Girls: Workers Who Painted with Radium and Suffered Radiation Exposure. The cost of glow-in-the-dark watch and clock dials was the lives of young women. Published: Aug 08, 2019 03:04...
7 Ιουν 2024 · Radium Girls, factory workers in radium dial factories, fell ill with anemia, cancer and necrosis of the jaw due to radium poisoning from glow-in-the-dark paint. Radium, initially promoted as a cure-all, was used in consumer products and later in radium paint for instruments during World War I.
23 Απρ 2024 · Dive into the poignant story of the Radium Girls, exposed to radioactive paint at work, revealing the devastating impact of industrial radiation.
6 Απρ 2023 · Known as the Radium Girls, female watchmakers painted dials with self-luminous paint filled with radioactive radium, leading to severe health complications. While the men wore lead aprons to protect themselves from the radiation, the women were given nothing.
25 Απρ 2017 · The Radium Dials. Around this time, American inventor William J. Hammer went to Paris and obtained a sample of radium salt crystals from the Curies. Hammer discovered that by mixing the radium with glue and zinc sulfide, he could make glow-in-the-dark paint.
