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    Radium dials are watch, clock and other instrument dials painted with luminous paint containing radium-226 to produce radioluminescence. Radium dials...
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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...
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  • 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...
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  • subsequent absorption of radium into the bones of radium dial painters. It also affected those consuming radium-laden patent medicines. The condition is similar...
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    filed against the United States Radium Corporation by five dying "Radium Girls" – dial painters who had painted radium-based luminous paint on the components...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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