Radium Girls Advertising

GLOW, a young adult novel, is about two teens, Lydia and Julie, who become witnesses to the haunting true story of the Radium Girls, the young women who worked with radioactive paint while unaware of its deadly properties.

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Now, even our crumbling bones will glow forever in the black earth. —- From “Radium Girls” by Eleanor Swanson

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The Radium Girls - In the 1920s, several US watch companies produced "glow in the dark" dials painted with radioluminescent paint, composed of zinc sulfide (ZnS) mixed with radioactive radium (226Ra) salts. The employees hired to paint the dials were mostly young women. The paint was applied to the numerals with a small brush. As the brush became flattened, the women "pointed" the brushes on their tongues between applications, and thereby ingested a small quantity of radium each time. Radi...