Standard Chemical Company Explained

Standard Chemical Company
Founded:	1911 to 1922
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Hq Location City:	Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
Hq Location Country:	United States
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Module:	Embed: yes Designation1: Pennsylvania Designation1 Offname: Standard Chemical Company Designation1 Type: City Designation1 Criteria: Business & Industry, Science & Medicine, Professions & Vocations Designation1 Date: January 01, 2018 Designation1 Free1name: Marker Location Designation1 Free1value: Allen Hall, 3941 O'Hara St., at entrance across from Thackeray Ave., Univ. of Pittsburgh

The 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.^[1]

History

The company was established by Joseph M. Flannery (1867-1920)^[2] and his brother James J. Flannery (1855-1920).^[3] In 1909 their sister became ill with cancer. Joseph, after traveling to Europe and learning that radium could treat cancer, and in an effort to help his sister, he decided that he would refine the radioactive element in the United States.

When Marie Curie was invited to the United States in 27. May 1921, she was given an honorary degree by the University of Pittsburgh, and one gram of radium, Standard Chemical Company provided it to her.^{[4] [5] [6]}

See also

United States Radium Corporation

External links

• Silverman. Alexander. Radioactivity and the University of Pittsburgh. Journal of Chemical Education. 22. 10. 1945. 482. 0021-9584. 10.1021/ed022p482.
• The Source of Radium . Bulletin of the Pan American Union . 1921 . 53 . 29 . Foley . Hamilton .
• Book: Timothy J. Jorgensen. Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation. 23 February 2016. Princeton University Press. 978-1-4008-8052-2. 126–.
• Book: Roger F. Robison. Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium. 1 December 2014. Springer. 978-3-319-11830-7. 132–.
• News: TOWN LIVES WITH URANIUM WASTES AND FEARS . The New York Times . 12 September 1982 .
• Web site: EEOICPA Covered Facilities: Vitro Manufacturing .
• Web site: How Two Pittsburgh Brothers Launched The First Nuclear Industry . 13 November 2018.
• Book: Roger F. Robison. Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium. 1 December 2014. Springer. 978-3-319-11830-7. 143–.
• Book: Barbara Bridgman Perkins. Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market. 16 August 2017. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-351-97812-5. 43–.
• Book: The Salt Lake Mining Review. 1915. 14–.
• Book: Inactive Uranium Mill Tailings, Canonsburg Site, Engineering Assessment Summary, EA.. 1982.
• Web site: A BRIEF HISTORY OF STANDARD CHEMICAL COMPANY. Joel O. Lubenau, CHP.
• (S023) The Radium Chemical Company: 1913–1981 . Oncology . Oncology Vol 30 No 4_Suppl_1 . 15 April 2016 . 30 . 4_Suppl_1 .
• Rentetzi. Maria. The U.S. Radium Industry: Industrial In-house Research and the Commercialization of Science. Minerva. 46. 4. 2008. 437–462. 0026-4695. 10.1007/s11024-008-9111-1. 144959250 . free.
• Silverman. Alexander. Pittsburgh's contribution to radium recovery. Journal of Chemical Education. 27. 6. 1950. 303. 0021-9584. 10.1021/ed027p303.
• Robison. Roger. American radium engenders telecurie therapy during World War I. Medical Physics. 27. 6. 2000. 1212–1216. 0094-2405. 10.1118/1.598998. 10902549 .
• Parsons. Charles L.. Our Radium Resources. Journal of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. 5. 11. 2002. 943–946. 0095-9014. 10.1021/ie50059a021.
• The First Nuclear Industry. Edward R. Landa . Scientific American . 247 . 5 . 1982 . 180–193. 24966733. 10.1038/scientificamerican1182-180 .
• Viol . C. H. . Science . American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) . 49 . 1262 . 1919-03-07 . 0036-8075 . 10.1126/science.49.1262.227 . 227–228 . Radium Production . 17809659.
• Web site: Radium journal . 1913 . Pittsburgh [Radium Chemical Co., etc.] .
• Web site: Vanadium.
• Web site: How Two Pittsburgh Brothers Launched The First Nuclear Industry. 13 November 2018.
• Web site: Flannery brothers made impact on Chartiers Valley region.

Notes and References

1. Web site: BRP Environmental Surveillance Section -- Environmental Monitoring. www.dep.state.pa.us . https://web.archive.org/web/20080528181548/http://www.dep.state.pa.us/brp/Decom_and_Env_Sur/PA_Decommissioning_Site_Summaries.htm . 2008-05-28.
2. Web site: Joseph M. Flannery.
3. Web site: James J. Flannery.
4. Lewicki. Ann M.. Marie Sklodowska Curie in America, 1921. Radiology. 223. 2. 2002. 299–303. 0033-8419. 10.1148/radiol.2232011319. 11997527.
5. Book: Jerry Grefenstette. Canonsburg. 15 June 2009. Arcadia Publishing. 978-1-4396-2218-6. 72–.
6. Book: Shelley Emling. Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family. 21 August 2012. St. Martin's Press. 978-1-137-10261-4. 63–.