Loch Lomond Radium Works

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Loch Lomond Radium Works was a company founded by John Stewart MacArthur in 1911 as the Radium Works in Halton, Cheshire, England. The company moved to Balloch, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland in 1915. The company produced radium for use in medicine and for radioluminescent paint until it was closed down in 1927.{{cite journal|last1=Messel|first1=Rudolph|title=Obituary|journal=Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry|volume=39|issue=9|year=1920|pages=R160–R162|issn=0368-4075|doi=10.1002/jctb.5000390905}}{{cite book|author=David Harvie|title=Deadly Sunshine: The History and Fatal Legacy of Radium|url=https://archive.org/details/deadlysunshinehi0000harv|url-access=registration|year=2005|publisher=Tempus|isbn=978-0-7524-3395-0}}{{cite book|author=Roger F. Robison|title=Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yNClBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA95|date=1 December 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-11830-7|pages=95–}}{{cite journal | journal = Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow | volume = 51| page = 1800 | title = MacArthur, Johns. Loch Lomond Radium Works, Balloch, Dumbartshire}}{{cite book|last1=Robison|first1=Roger F.|title=Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium |chapter=European Radium Sales|year=2015|pages=83–107|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-11830-7_4|isbn=978-3-319-11829-1 }}

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