Radium dials are watch, clock and other instrument dials painted with luminous paint containing radium-226 to produce radioluminescence. Radium dials...

The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint...

The Radium Dial Company was one of a few now defunct United States companies, along with the United States Radium Corporation, involved in the painting...

subsequent absorption of radium into the bones of radium dial painters. It also affected those consuming radium-laden patent medicines. The condition is similar...

United States Radium Corporation by five dying "Radium Girls" – dial painters who had painted radium-based luminous paint on the dials of watches and...

the United States Army for use by soldiers. U.S. Radium workers, especially women who painted the dials of watches and other instruments with luminous paint...

the history of Boy Scouting, Girl Scouting and Camp Fire. In 1922, the Radium Dial Company (RDC) moved from Peru, Illinois to a former high school building...

Marnich. It is based on the true story of four women who worked for the Radium Dial Company - a watch factory based in Ottawa, Illinois. The play showcases...

radium emits penetrating gamma rays, which can pass through the metal and glass of a watch dial, and skin. A typical older radium wristwatch dial has...

highly-radioactive mesothorium (Ra-228).[failed verification] Dr. Evans also studied radium dial painters and was able to study one whose intake was similar to, but somewhat...