Radium - it gives things a real glow!

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[glock35gal.livejournal.com]

Those seriously scare me, although the art deco bottle designs in the Radior ad are gorgeous.

[misstia]

i absolutely agree...very scary!

[tanwen.livejournal.com]

Holy crap!

[sp23.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite 1950's sci-fi movies is Beginning of the End where locusts eat irradiated grain and then eat Chicago. :-)

[behindthechalet.livejournal.com]

isn't that what Homer used on his fields that ended up yielding tomacco?

[magista.livejournal.com]

The Radior Toilet Requisites are just "um... no" from a modern perspective. The effects of radiation weren't really understood for nearly two more decades, though.

But the use of radium for self-illuminated items wouldn't have been nearly so bad if the women who painted on the radium paint weren't encouraged to point their brushes by licking them. See Radium Girls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls).

But if it's new and scientific, it must be good, right? Even Marie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie) and Pierre Curie didn't realize at the time the dangers of handling radium and polonium so much. If Pierre hadn't been killed in a street accident, it's likely that he too would have succumbed to a radiation-related illness (aplastic anemia, in Marie's case).

Her laboratory papers (and her cookbook, of all things) are still too radioactive to be handled except with protective clothing.

[albear.livejournal.com]

Radium makes things grow, like tumors!