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cthulu2016

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5. As I kid I had a watch with radium-painted numbers...

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Tue May 29, 2012, 12:59 PM

May 2012

...and we had some very, very, very, very beautiful glow-in-the-dark icicle Christmas tree decorations. Also powered by radium.

(It is incredibly beautiful... a deep crystalline blue, not the yellow-green of that safe glow in the dark stuff.)

I think the painters of glow-in-the-dark watch faces (with radium paint) were the first cases recognized of the problem. Painting those tiny numbers on a watch is close work and one has to continually "point" the brush in her mouth while working.

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