#radium

Then everyone started putting it and using it in everything without knowing the danger. Business continued to use it even though they new the risk and how it was detrimental to the public and environment. They then continued to lie about its saftey and that it wasn't bad, but progress. They blamed the people speaking out as the problem.

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Born from pitchblende and discovered in the shadows of Marie Curie’s lab, Radium is an element that carries its own ghostly luminescence. A beautiful, dangerous glow that refuses to be hidden, defying the dark until it slowly decays over millennia. Some secrets are meant to burn bright. 🖤

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My uranium and radium collection🥺 Aren't they so beautiful

Marie Curie’s second Nobel Prize (the first one was shared with her husband) was awarded for her discovery and isolation of radium, as well as for discovering polonium. Radium does not naturally glow green—the classic glow-in-the-dark color is from the addition of copper. Radium naturally glows faintly blue in the dark.