Loch Lomond Radium Works was a company founded by

John Stewart MacArthur John Stewart MacArthur was a chemist from Glasgow. Born on 9 December 1856, he is credited with the development of the MacArthur-Forrest cyanidation process in 1887, used to extract gold in South Africa. His patent for the process was voided. W ...

in 1911 as the Radium Works in Halton,

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

, England. The company moved to

Balloch, West Dunbartonshire Balloch (; Scots pronunciation: ; Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic: ''Am Bealach'') is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, at the foot of Loch Lomond. Etymology Balloch comes from either the Gaelic word ''baile'' which means village or hamlet, ...

, Scotland in 1915. The company produced

radium Radium is a chemical element with the symbol Ra and atomic number 88. It is the sixth element in group 2 of the periodic table, also known as the alkaline earth metals. Pure radium is silvery-white, but it readily reacts with nitrogen (rather t ...

for use in medicine and for

radioluminescent paint Luminous paint or luminescent paint is paint that exhibits luminescence. In other words, it gives off visible light through fluorescence, phosphorescence, or radioluminescence. There are three types of luminous paints: fluorescent paint, phospho ...

until it was closed down in 1927.

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{{Reflist Loch Lomond Vale of Leven British companies established in 1911 British companies disestablished in 1927 Chemical companies of the United Kingdom 1911 establishments in England 1927 disestablishments in Scotland