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The employees, now known as Radium Girls, were instructed to continuously reshape the hairs of the brushes they used by putting them in their mouths. The women working in the factories were tasked with painting the numerals and other markings on the timepiece dials with a luminous paint comprising glue, water, and radium powder. Luminous Processes remained in operation until 1977. Radium Dial moved to Ottawa from Chicago in 1922 and operated there until 1932 when it changed its name to Luminous Processes in reaction to a lawsuit. Women painting radium on watch dials for the proudly (and aptly) named Radium Dial company
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