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Probably right. I was thinking about the factories, in retrospect. I believe that many of the workers ingested it. Also, back then, they had radium philters (t
by ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
Probably right. I was thinking about the factories, in retrospect. I believe that many of the workers ingested it.
Also, back then, they had radium philters (tonics).
- dodslaser 1y agoYeah, and while handling radium paint on a daily basis probably isn't the best, they ingested a lot more radium than you would from just being around it all day. Radium paint had been deemed non-toxic, and so the standard operating procedure for the factory workers was to "point" the tips of the brushes using their lips.