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the element that glowed so prettily it killed its biggest fans
discovered byMarie Curie, who later died from the exposure
glow factorypainted onto watch dials for nighttime visibility
radium girlsworkers licked brushes, then their jaws decayed
quack curesold in tonics and toothpaste as health booster
half-lifeabout 1,600 years of relentless decay