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We are an environmental science course at St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, NJ, taught by Mrs. T. We'll be blogging about environmental issues all term, so please stay tuned!

Sunday, January 13, 2013

U.S Radium Corporation

The U.S Radium Corporation was around in from 1917 till the middle of the 1900's. It was based out of Orange,NJ. Radium come from the Earth crust and is used to decorate watches. Radium was used for watches, because it is luminous paint that made the numbers glow in the dark.Many people that worked in factory got ill because they didn't know that radium was toxic.Currently the site is not contaminated because of it funding.

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