eli5 How come if highly radioactive radium was on watches that the wearers didn’t succumb to radiation poisoning at the wrist?
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Answer: With the watch you get a tiny dose. When you paint the watch faces you get that…..a few hundred times a day. Plus they were breathing the dust in, putting the brushes in their mouths….and since the company didn’t tell them it was dangerous or anything, actually totally safe no prob, they were using it as a cosmetic too, painting their nails and adding to their cosmetic powders and such. The dust got in their clothes so they were exposed to it in massive, massive doses.
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