Thread:Radium212/@comment-33370682-20170702143400/@comment-32368067-20170704081101

Do you mean I can't collect it? Radiation sickness is always associated with radium due to the "Radium Girls", the painters of the luminous dials who licked their brushes to a sharp point. They took radium internally for prolonged periods of time, and therefore died. I collect radioactive samples, of uranium, thorium, americium, and radium. I would not take any internally. The radiation level from even my highest level sample would need to be incident on the body for several days, and in close contact before causing any ulceration or redness of the skin.