How Dangerous Is Radium Really? The Truth About the Radioactive Element
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@Torby4096 · 2 months ago
Dad had a radium pocket watch. He showed me once. The radiation had darkened the crystal over the numbers. As an engineer, he knew what it was and kept it wrapped up in a drawer some distance from rooms we frequented. After looking at it for a minute, he wrapped it back up and put it away. Yes, it still glowed.
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@kmagnussen1052 · 2 months ago
Corporations are still lying to employees about asbestos !
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@sifridbassoon · 2 months ago
at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPR5ntXclJg&t=342">5:42</a> That's the wrong Menlo Park. That one is in California. Edison's Menlo Park was in New Jersey.
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@yasioo69 · 1 month ago
Maria Skłodowska - Curie
@kmagnussen1052 · 2 months ago
Corporations left to their own devices are evil !
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@elsahelgasone · 1 month ago
It might be fixing in very short time, but still would more dangerous of the other organ failures more suffer than the original cancer sell to grown. Those treatment is really working in your body; they just the experimental test on you right at the moment, you don’t even know really what kinds of you had, just they said that. Eventually, your body could fights of the white cells that in your body only had two kind of cells that you concern, not the name of sickness. When the body had damaged will caused the pains, but if time for you to death, you couldn’t stop or not to go for your destiny, your body inside could fight for the sickness, no need to scare of dead or living. You could just know your life’s either dead or living, doctors in healthcare could help you but you help8ng yourselves without wait8ng for anyone not really could heal you.
@Tuz242 · 1 month ago
А че там насчёт радиевых печей 1800-ых годов? Интересно
@Truth-mk-s2k · 1 month ago (edited)
Radium may be out of fashion, but you can see 1000 crank cures advertised daily on YouTube.
@JonMadden-n6m · 2 months ago
These ai narratives annoy me.<br>They may be reasonably, if slowly, informative but they have a tiresome monotony about them.
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@kmagnussen1052 · 2 months ago
What happened to the Los Alamos worker that swallowed the plutonium?
@JessyPannerselvam · 2 months ago
Sampangi tower <br><br><br>Nagasaki <br><br>Nagasaki <br><br><br><br><br>Kalbakkam <br><br>kalbakkam
@JessyPannerselvam · 2 months ago
peer reviewed <br>for 14 years .......... yet things have not changed the the universities ..... <br>... <br>peer reviewed ! without peers <br>peer reviewed without ..... any fund ..... whatsoever as a lecturer.... <br>....
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