As expected, Mollie’s corpse showed no sign of syphilis, but it had clearly been mangled by radiation. Similar results came through for the other radium girls who had died, and eventually ...

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Newsstories from Southern California made it appear that Mrs. Josie Bishop owns an extremely rich deposit of radium-bearing ore—one of the richest, in proportion of radium to the ton ...

It was distilled water containing traces of radium and mesothorium (another radioactive substance). The dope eased the arm pain, braced Byers up. He enthusiastically recommended it to friends ...

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It was a time, during the first decades of the 20th century, when radium was considered a miraculous medical cure-all, routinely added to consumer products from cosmetics to patent-medicine pick ...

Joe Dunthorne’s discursive fourth-generation memoir, “Children of Radium,” unpacks that move, while wandering across Europe and through decades of family lore. Based in London, Dunthorne is ...

The area's geology is naturally rich in minerals, including radium. Radium is a radioactive metal and has been linked to cancer. However, it is naturally occurring and the EPA allows small levels ...