You mean just in contact with air?
This article mentions an actress who wore a trinitite hair ornament, which may or may not be what you were thinking of:
which book was that?
Ozma of Oz
I mean in contact with the trace amounts of moisture in and on human skin. The lye wouldn’t have a chance to cause blisters, because the reaction that formed the lye would have already caused damage much greater than blisters.
I don’t remember that happening in Ozma of Oz, but it does happen in The Marvelous Land of Oz. The protagonist is the boy Tip who learns that he was actually born a girl and had been magically transformed into a boy. At the end of the book the spell is reversed and he again becomes a girl.
Ozma is the girl he becomes.
Yes I know, but Ozma’s transformation happens in The Marvelous Land of Oz, not in Ozma of Oz. I don’t believe there is any sex-transformation in the latter book.
No, and I meant that it happened to her, not in the Ozma of Oz book, though. I should have left the name without italics. I plead tiredness.
This may be a nitpick, but radium is in group 2 on the periodic table which makes it an alkaline earth metal, not an alkaline metal (group 1). Anyway, back when I used to have my students do reports on the elements several sources stated that there probably is no substantial quantity of the pure element around anymore.
On earth. This is Oz.