What state did the radium come from that was used in glow-in-the-dark radioactive paint between 1917 and 1926?
Standard Chemical Company The now defunct Standard Chemical Company (SCC) of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, was the first successful commercial producer of radium. SCC operated the radium refining mill from 1911 to 1922 on a 19-acre (77,000 m2) plot of land. The company supplied radium to the United States Radium Corporation for use in their watch dials.
Lumibrite Lumibrite (SrAl2O4 + Eu + Dy - Strontium aluminate doped with Europium and Dysprosium) is a luminous paint used on some models of Seiko, Citizen, Lorus, and Pulsar watches.