The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became ...

and by products formed by the decay of radium (Radium 226) and thorium present in many sorts of rocks, other building materials and in the soil. By far the largest source of natural radiation exposure ...

The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used ...

Of the 4 persons with an average weekly exposure above 20 mr, 2 were radium workers, 1 was a dental technician, and the fourth was a resident physician who, early in his training, handled ...

One in four Michigan homes has high levels of radon, according to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great La ...

Curie not only discovered radium, she realised what it could be ... almost certainly caused by her experiments and repeated exposure to X-rays on the battlefields of France. She was buried in ...