Thanks, Bookpossum. That's fascinating. Here's an interesting quote I found.
https://gizmodo.com/marie-curies-100...oac-1615847891
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Marie Curie was basically walking around with bottles of polonium and radium in her pockets all the time. She even kept capsules full of the dangerous stuff on her shelf. "One of our joys was to go into our workroom at night; we then perceived on all sides the feebly luminous silhouettes of the bottles of capsules containing our products," the Nobel Prize-winning scientist wrote in her autobiography. "It was really a lovely sight and one always new to us. The glowing tubes looked like faint, fairy lights."
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