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Published: 2013-11-22 03:27:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 4248; Favourites: 187; Downloads: 54
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This is Lady Radium, the 88th element of the periodic table. This piece goes along with Xenon, another of the elements. Maybe one day I'll get to all of them.Radium was discovered in 1898. One of its early uses was for glow-in-the-dark numbers on clocks. The women who painted the clocks were encouraged to lick their paintbrushes to moisten them, and as a result many of them died from radiation poisoning. See "The Radium Girls" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_G…
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Oh, this is lovely, especially her face, though her right hand (upper part) bothers me...
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Poor Radium Girls. 
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Oh this is so cool! Love the Steampunk feel to the image with the clock! Awesome!
There is a great old movie called "Madame Curie" with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon that depicts the life of Marie Curie who discovered radium. www.imdb.com/title/tt0036126/
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Thanks! It's based on a Art Nouveau clock - some of them are so amazingly beautiful.
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My first thought was: I'd actually love a dress like this!
But seriously, I think it's really a beautiful artwork.
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An xray dress! That skeleton was such a pain... Thanks and glad you like it!
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Not one showing my bones, just nice bones. Not the way the halloween costumes are... yours is so much more defined.
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Truly a Unique and very cool look love the glow and style!!
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My pleasure it was such an electric piece how could I not Love it!
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I was going to refrain from commenting/favoriting things until I got more accustomed to actually having an account here (I'm such a newbie :c ), but I can't help myself.
I LOVE this so much, even more so because I love chem 
Also, your Xenon picture is amazing. I love that barely-there glow amongst all the darkness.
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Thanks you, so glad you liked it!
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Two down, only....a hundred and something to go 
I've heard of that radium girls thing. One would think why didn't they just have a glass of water to moisten their paintbrushes instead
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They were licking their brushes to dress the points for fine work. Remember that in those days, there were radium tonics, a water cooler with a radioactive insert, and even radium-infused toothpaste. Very few materials were radioactive enough and present in quantities large enough to produce any cases of acute radiation injury. Some of what is now called the "alternative medicine" crowd were even babbling that ionizing radiation might be the hypothetical "Life Energy." It took a while for the hazard to be recognized.
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Sorta like how the past people glorified asbestos...Now we realize how bad it is
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The radium case was what led to a lot of occupational safety laws here in the US. Which were sorely needed. I can't believe how all the higher ups at US Radium knew how dangerous radium was, but refused to let the women workers know. Sheer greed. It's only the laws that keep companies from doing things like this nowadays. I'm sure they had some understanding of how bad asbestos was but kept it under wraps as long as they could too.
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Yeah, typical corporate types, they only care for their worker's healthy and safety now because they're legally obligated to. Otherwise all that safety gear, signs, and non-toxic equivalents to substances that are toxic but cheaper to manufacture is just money they could be putting in their pockets instead. A boss is like a king, especially in those days, caring only for what their masses can provide for them and who cares if someone loses a hand or two, or gets poisoned in the process 
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