• Luminous paint (or luminescent paint) is paint that emits visible light through fluorescence, phosphorescence, or radioluminescence. Fluorescent paints...
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    Radium dial (redirect from Radium paint)
    Radium dials are watch, clock and other instrument dials painted with luminous paint containing radium-226 to produce radioluminescence. Radium dials...
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    poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint. The incidents occurred at three factories in the United States: one...
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    Black light paint or black light fluorescent paint is luminous paint that glows under a black light. It is based on pigments that respond to light in the...
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    S. Radium workers, especially women who painted the dials of watches and other instruments with luminous paint, suffered serious radioactive contamination...
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    of radioluminescence was in luminous paint containing radium, a natural radioisotope. Beginning in 1908, luminous paint containing a mixture of radium...
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  • easily available alternatives. Until the 1960s, radium was used in luminous paint for watch dials and aircraft instruments. As a radioactive material...
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    Undark (redirect from Undark (paint))
    Undark was a trade name for luminous paint made with a mixture of radioactive radium and zinc sulfide, as produced by the U.S. Radium Corporation between...
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  • contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint in the early 20th century. A prominent example of this condition was...
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    military applications, may have been painted with radioactive luminous paint. They are usually no longer luminous; this is not due to radioactive decay...
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  • using radioluminescent paint containing radium. The resulting dials are now collectively known as radium dials. The luminous paint used on the dials contained...
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    Kenzo Nemoto in December 1941 as a luminous paint processing company and has supplied and developed luminous paint to the watch and clock and aviation...
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    brands usually do not charge extra for metallic paint.[citation needed] Kinechromatic art Luminous paint Metallic colour Robert Scharff (1990). Complete...
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    applications is promethium-147, chemical compounds of which are used in luminous paint, atomic batteries and thickness-measurement devices. Because natural...
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    resist wear and slipping, especially in wet conditions. Luminous paint or luminescent paint is paint that exhibits luminescence. In other words, it gives...
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    often have luminous paint on their hands and hour marks. In the mid-20th century, radioactive material was often incorporated in the paint, so it would...
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    first introduced in 1888. List of light sources Scientific American, "Luminous Paint" (historical aspects), 10-Dec-1881, pp.368 High-visibility clothing...
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    as "Revolver" and "Field glasses" is "Luminous wristwatch with unbreakable glass". The presence of luminous paint and an unbreakable crystal became the...
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    theater group conducts events involving candles, masks, and make-up using luminous paint in the form of sugar skulls. In Belize, Day of the Dead is practiced...
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    Lume is a short term for the luminous phosphorescent glowing solution applied on watch dials. There are some people who "relume" watches, or replace faded...
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    can be used for self-powered lighting. Radium was used to make self-luminous paint from the early 20th century to about 1970. Promethium briefly replaced...
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    injection molding. Alumina effect pigment Iridescence Kinechromatic art Luminous paint Pearlescent coating US 4434010, Ash, Gary, issued 1984-02-28  US 5424119...
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  • "Dispose Rad. Waste" on caseback Clear coating on luminous painted hands to prevent the luminous paint from flaking off Watchband bars required to be integral...
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  • In the episode, Del buys a consignment of yellow paint which, unknown to him, is actually luminous, a fact he only discovers when they use it to decorate...
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    a half-life of 12.32 years. It is radioactive enough to be used in luminous paint to enhance the visibility of data displays, such as for painting the...
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    2008-12-05 at the Wayback Machine: In addition to ordinary phosphorescent luminous paint (zinc sulfide), brighter photoluminescent coatings which include radioactive...
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    Yasumitsu Aoki and Takashi Matsuzawa as a safe replacement for radium-based luminous paints. The invention was patented in 1994 by Nemoto & Co., Ltd. and licensed...
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    Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. Oil paint also has practical...
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    collaborated with Kajiura for FictionJunction for the songs Yakō Toryō (夜光塗料, Luminous Paint) and Soukyuu no Fanfare (蒼穹のファンファーレ, Fanfare of the Azure Sky) with...
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    sight had holes for 30, 60, 80 and 150 m (260 and 490 ft), and had luminous paint in them to make counting up to the correct one easier in the dark. This...
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