The Radium Girls

The Radium Girls

32:072023-06-11

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Join Kelli as she gives the history of the Radium Girls - young women who worked in factories painting watches and dials with paint containing RADIUM. The girls were encouraged to use their lips to keep the brushes pointy, and as a result, they were consuming alpha radiation particles from the radioactive radium. The result? Disintegrating bones, rotting necrotic tissue, and painful death.Follow the APHOUT podcast for more stories! It also helps me grow the show!Sources referenced:The Radium ...

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