I've heard so many times that "radioactive things don't actually glow", so I initially thought a Murdoch episode got that wrong about radium
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Then I was informed "oh, it does, and they really did want to put it in watches and clocks, and awful things happened" and blarrrrrgh >_<
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Replying to @dantheshive
people still do that, but nowadays with tritium (which is a beta emitter): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium_radioluminescence …
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(but it's not actually the radioactive material that's glowing - rather, it's the material that's absorbing the radiation)
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Replying to @tehjh @dantheshive
and as long as no gamma radiation is involved and the radioactive material doesn't come in contact with air, it's not so bad
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