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Marie Curie referred to glowing materials as “spicy light.” Scientists: just poets with equipment.

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Marie Curie did discover radioactive elements radium and polonium, and she reportedly found the glow of radium beautiful, but there is no record that she used the phrase 'spicy light.'

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