The term, “aesthetic impact,” refers to

The way the author’s artistic touch and sense of beauty affects the story

The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. The painting was done by women at three different factories, and the term now applies to the women working at the facilities: one in Orange, New Jersey, beginning around 1917; one in Ottawa, Illinois, beginning in the early 1920s; and a third facility in Waterbury, Connecticut. They died by ingesting the poison when told they had to point the brushes on their lips to give it a finer tip. Explanation: