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  1. Mar 15, 2017 · Unbeknownst to us, the Radium Dial Company (1918-1936) and Luminous Processes, Inc. (1937-1978) had been manufacturing radium-based luminous dials in Ottawa. After a morning of unsuccessful...

  2. luminescence, emission of light by certain materials when they are relatively cool. It is in contrast to light emitted from incandescent bodies, such as burning wood or coal, molten iron, and wire heated by an electric current.

  3. May 27, 2023 · An easy-to-understand explanation of why luminous things like (fireflies and luminous watches) glow with light.

  4. Feb 1, 2018 · Ricci went to the mayor to ask that a fence be put up around the then-abandoned Luminous Processes building, where some of the radiation originated from. The state forced the factory to close in 1978 after repeated health and environmental violations.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Radium_dialRadium dial - Wikipedia

    Radium dials are watch, clock and other instrument dials painted with luminous paint containing radium-226 to produce radioluminescence. Radium dials were produced throughout most of the 20th century before being replaced by safer tritium -based luminous material in the 1970s and finally by non-toxic, non-radioactive strontium ...

  6. Jan 25, 2018 · In 1978, the same year Luminous Processes closed in Ottawa, Peg Looney's body was exhumed. Earlier, when the Cold War threatened nuclear attacks, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission began to study radiation's effects on humans.

  7. Oct 5, 2016 · In luminous research regions, the DFT calculation finds wide application in revealing the luminescence mechanism and designing luminous materials. In this chapter, we first introduce the first-principles calculation foundation theory, related software, and the luminescence physics processes.