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i think you're actually referencing the Radium Girls, the radioactive flourescence illuminated watchface dial painters https://www.cnn.com/style/article/radium
by fsckboy 4y ago
i think you're actually referencing the Radium Girls, the radioactive flourescence illuminated watchface dial painters
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/radium-girls-radioactive-paint/index.html https://www.cnn.com/style/article/radium-girls-radioactive-p...
- sidewndr46 4y agoThere is plenty of paint that was lead based throughout history. But as some other posters mentioned lead has been used in human history for thousands of years.
- fsckboy 4y agolead has been bad for people for thousands of years; one of the problems with heavy metal poisoning is that it's cumulative, it's not eliminated and the concentration in an individual will keep increasing. but I was referring to the "paintbrush in mouth" aspect.