However, this wasn't the case in the early 20th century when radium paint was used for many household objects without a second thought. That is until factory workers exposed to the radium paint ...

In the 1920s when radium paint was introduced into the manufacture of clock dials in a New Jersey factory, the dangers of the newly developed material were still to be discovered.

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