What Is Happening With Marie Curie's Clothes?

When something is irradiated, that doesn't mean that it's turned into something radioactive. What is happening with Marie Curie's clothes and notebooks is that there was a bunch of radioactive stuff around. They're just like the way that dust gets on stuff. So you don't have to worry too much about it unless it starts to become ionizing where I can actually change something chemically.

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