![]() But it's no more nutty than, say, homeopathic remedies are today. This might seem nutty now, and in fact many people died from these treatments. ephedrine in high doses sold as an "herbal" remedy), soon after the discovery of radiation it started being used in health drinks and other remedies. ![]() Just as we have a lot of quack medicines today, many of which are quite dangerous (e.g. Great Radium Spring Water Co, Inc, Pittsfield, Mass bottle. If you're interested in collecting radioactive things, here is a book I highly recommend. Here's a great article about an object I'd sure like to find and enclose behind a huge amount of lead/ ![]() It was donated by Trish Craig of the Environmental Health & Safety department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is still definitely radioactive (half-life of 1600 years, so it's going to be that way for a long time). The luminosity has faded, which is known to happen due to the deterioration of the zinc sulfide phosphor. This oil temperature gauge is out of a WWII bomber and it has a luminous dial made with radium paint. For a time radium was fashionable in luminous watches and quack medical products (which were very harmful unless they were cheap rip-offs that didn't contain any real radium, in which case they were at least harmless). Uranium is radioactive too, but radium is much, much more intensely radioactive, so even tiny amounts in an ore can greatly increase its overall radioactivity. Radium is responsible for much of the radioactivity of uranium ores. My periodic table poster is now available! Facts, pictures, stories about the element Radium in the Periodic Table
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