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Radium girls
Radium girls




radium girls

Lastly, bleeding escalates which makes it more painful. Ulcers and pus start to develop in Maggie’s mouth. Much more drastic symptoms also start to occur for her quickly.

radium girls

This did not stop here when Maggia experienced toothache in the next teeth. First appears a toothache to subside it they had to take out her teeth. After exposing herself to radium for many days Maggia starts to face sudden side effects. This industry allowed female workers to paint watch dials with radium. Maggia is a radium girl who worked at Radium Luminous corp. Soon, the exposure to this element starts to affect the girls brutally. Radium did not leave the radium girls from its effects. Plus, the cause of her death is due to radium exposure. At first, she did experience heat burns due to this element. Madam Curie herself faced many side effects when working with radium. The reality is exposing radium to the body can cause many side effects. The factory managers also assure us that ingesting radium is not bad. Due to this, the factory managers did advise the woman to use their lips for fine painting. Health issues, painful symptoms and death of radium girlsĪs a part of their job fine painting of dials with radium was important. Let us see much more about radium Girls and some of the painful things they experience by exposing themselves to radium. Ingesting these radium paints is the dangerous part of their job. Without knowing the dangers of radium they used it mindlessly. Moreover, some even apply radium paint to their teeth to glow at night.ĭuring the parties, these women did look different from others as they had this paint all over them that glows. Further, the women working in that industry apply radium to their dresses to make them look shiny.

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Also, daily exposure to radium did make the woman’s hair, dress, skin and clothes glow.

radium girls

No one at that time knew about the dangers of radium. These women were exposed to huge amounts of radium every day. The group of hardworking women who did the painting of dials with radium was called the Radium Girls. Let us see the hard truth behind the glowing radio girls The work that made radium Girls glow For radium painting jobs many female workers were hired. With the rising factories, the need for workers did increase. This is the time when the Radium Girls enter the picture. Using radium in toothpaste and cosmetics was much popular. Apart from its medical use radium soon becomes the star material for the commercial sector. Due to this many thought of radium as a magic element that is the biggest cure for diseases. The use of radium for the treatment of cancer is a breakthrough medicinal discovery.






Radium girls