My name is may keen. I was the last radium girl. My coworkers, closest friends, passed away from radium poisoning. Radium paint was commercially produced in america for the first time. A year later the u. S. Ram corporation was founded in orange, new jersey. They began producing radium paints and radium products for their businesses. During world war i, 95 of radium was used for military purposes but a small amount was being made into fashionable products such as shampoo, facial cosmetics, quloclothes, watches was even being added to water. It began to spread all over america because of a polish scientist who discovered radium while working with radioactive elements in pursuit of her doctorate degree. Both experimented with the physiological effects and were soon working as physicians to develop new miedical uses for this new development. The u. S. Produced 80 of the worlds radium. Radium Companies Began to spread all over america. But the one im going to talk about today is the u. S.
Website, paper, and performance. Up next, a 10 minute performance by three middle school students. This is glowing girls triumph and tragedy of the radium women. I will be playing grace briar. I will be playing catherine hsu. My name is making, and i was a radium girl. Im here to tell you the story of how my coworkers, some of my closest friends passed away from radium poisoning. In 1913, radium paint was commercially produced in america for the first time. A year later, u. S. Radium corporation was founded in orange, new jersey. They began producing radium paints and radium parts for american businesses. During world war i, 95 of radio was being used for military purposes, but a small amount was being made into fashionable products such as shampoo, facial cosmetics, clothes, watches. It was even being added to water. The popularity of radium began to spread all over america because of a scientist named to because of a polish scientist named marie curie, who discovered radium onto summ
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