a newly created paint containing radium‚ work that required the small‚ precise hands and keen eyes of girls in their late teens and early twenties (Graebner‚ 1998). These jobs were made not only to cater to
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DDT and Radium Exposure In our country’s past‚ new and untested dangerous materials could be found in many places. Two of these materials were DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) and Radium. Both These two materials were both similar and different in many ways. Radium and DDT are similar in a few ways. Both are very rarely found existing in nature. They are similar in that Radium is often found only in compounds and DDT is a compound. Besides that‚ they both harm the human body. They both mainly
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Radium is an alkaline earth metal that has a silvery-white color. It is closley related to the elements uranium and thorium‚ and has similar structure to calcium. Radium enters the body through inhalation and ingestion. In the case of the Radium Girls‚ it entered their bodys when the pointed their brushes with their lips‚ swallowing the radium paint in small amounts each time. At the time‚ there was almost no knowledge of the negative health affects of the newly discovered element; many people actually
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During the 20th century‚ the element radium was used for commercial purposes and medicinal. While radium had some positive effects in both these areas‚ many people failed to see that radium actually had deadly capabilities. One example of the deadliness? Of radium in human life was with an energy drink called Radithor. The drink had radium dissolved in the solution. The owners of the company preached the benefits of the drink and that it could possibly increase sexual desire. In this way‚ many people
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people may ask. Marie Curie and her husband‚ Pierre Curie‚ were two scientists that discovered two elements of the periodic table‚ polonium and radium. She and her husband worked all of their lives to understand radium and radioactivity. When something is radioactive‚ it produces radiation‚ which is moving subatomic particles.The interesting thing is‚ that radium‚ what Marie Curie discovered‚ killed her. Marie Curie’s family was based around science and education. Her father was a professor at a school
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Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist Aspirations come from hopes and dreams only a dedicated person can conjure up. They can range from passing the third grade to making the local high school football team. Marie Curie’s aspirations‚ however‚ were much greater. Life in late 19th century Poland was rough. Being a female in those days wasn’t a walk in the park either. Marie Curie is recognized in history by the name she took in her adopted country‚ France. Born in Poland in 1867
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INFORMATION ABOUT MARIE CURIE Introduction: Dr. Marie Curie is one of the most famous scientists that ever lived. Her contributions such as the discovery of Radium and other key elements help us out every day‚ especially when getting an X-ray. Marie Curie is known to the world as the scientist who discovered radioactive metals i.e.‚ Radium and Polonium. Born and Death: Marie Curie was born November 7‚ 1867 in Poland and died on July 4‚ 1934. Her full name is Marie Sklodowska Curie. Personal
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Rutherford’s early research was on magnetic properties‚ but then Ernest Rutherford moved to nuclear chemistry. Frederick Soddy and Ernest Rutherford both looked into the ‘Disintegration theory” of radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford researched the properties of radium and alpha rays. Ernest Rutherford accomplished making a nitrogen nuclei turn into an oxygen nuclei‚ by the transmutation of alpha particles. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908 was awarded to Ernest Rutherford "for his investigations into the disintegration
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technology being discovered every day. These Shining Lives displays the extremes companies go to in order to maintain their reputations in society and among their competition. Through her play Melanie Marnich captures the false ignorance of the danger of radium when consumed by the women making the watches. In order for individuals to remain satisfied‚ dangerous jobs are necessary although safety should be a priority in any company and employees made completely aware of what their job entails. The needs
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Though her life was filled with many difficult situations one that was harder to overcome to the public was being a female scientist and how the board didn’t wish to grant access to a proper laboratory until the couple had proven the existence of Radium. When the movie first began they began with telling the listeners about how she was poor and had left her family and came from all across the world just to learn / take her education/ get her degree in physics and
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