I'm in the middle of reading The Radium Girls.¹ One fascinating thing to me is that radium, once ingested, tends to deposit itself in the bones (which makes sen

I'm in the middle of reading The Radium Girls.¹ One fascinating thing to me is that radium, once ingested, tends to deposit itself in the bones (which makes sense if you glance at the positions of Calcium and Radium in the periodic table) and as a consequence, in the later stages of radium poisoning will make the bones glow in the dark. One of the young women who died of radium poisoning, woke up in the middle of the night, and saw her skull glowing through her skin when she faced a mirror near her bed. Another woman, whose body was exhumed during the lawsuit against the US Radium Corporation, again had a visible glow in the bones when her coffin was opened. 1. An interesting read, although not that well written.