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A very radioactive alkaline earth metal that used to be found on glow-in-the-dark watch dials. They were covered with luminous paint that contained a small amount of radium. Eventually people figured out that radium paint is a pretty big health hazard, so they stopped producing watches with it in the 1970s.
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