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from: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230907-the-fear-of-a-nuclear-fire-that-would-consume-earth
Marie Curie’s revelations about radioactivity in the early 1900s helped change the course of human history.
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Scientific instruments in the 1900’s are as inscrutable as the scientific instruments now. Definitely not your basic chemistry set.
So are her remains I believe. Her tomb in the Pantheon is lined with lead.