LadyRadium

This is Lady Radium, the 88th element of the periodic table. This piece goes along with Xenon,    another of the elements. Maybe one day I'll get to all of them.

Radium was discovered in 1898. One of its early uses was for glow-in-the-dark numbers on clocks. The women who painted the clocks were encouraged to lick their paintbrushes to moisten them, and as a result many of them died from radiation poisoning. See "The Radium Girls" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_G…