How To Use Radium In A Sentence
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Each radium atom is decaying into four more alpha-emitting radionuclides, creating in all 12,500 particles.
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Crookes, a toy called the spinthariscope, on which radium particles impinge upon sulphide of zinc and make it luminous, induced him to associate the two sets of phenomena.
The World Set Free
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As a result of this decomposition very minute bodies, to which the name corpuscles has been given, are projected from the radium atom with exceedingly great velocity.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry
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The assumption is that a radio-active substance, like uranium, "decays," or passes into many other substances, of which radium is one, finally producing lead in 1,000,000,000 years or more.
The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
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The radium custodian is mentioned in the title story, which is set in in the
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Screws or bolts used to fix lighting fixtures should be no less than 2 pieces. When insulated radium is less than 75mm, lighting fixture should be fixed by one screw or bolt.
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The ability of radioactive substances such as radium to radiate energy, apparently spontaneously and continuously, appeared to contradict the law of the conservation of energy.
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The market price of radium is at present 70 dollars for 1 mg, but I am sure that our academy would be willing to accept a lower price. 142
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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The University of Southampton used mass spectrometry to probe samples for plutonium, radium and caesium.
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Taking the atomic weight of uranium as 238.5, the atomic weight of ionium should be 230.5, of radium 226.5, of the emanation 222.5, and so on.
Ernest Rutherford - Nobel Lecture
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Franz Urbach directed the Physikalische Laboratorium and worked on radium dosimetry and instrumentation from 1932 to 1934 when Hilda Fonovits-Smereker succeeded him. 74 Through his connections to Tandler and the physicians at the hospital in Lainz, Meyer offered both of them the chance to cross the scientific boundary between physics and medicine, bringing their expertise in instrumentation and experimentation from the Radium Institute to the municipal hospital.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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After analysis, we obtain the balance parameter of single and total radium-radon.
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At the same time, those involved in radium research came to consider themselves as a distinct disciplinary community.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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Slowly the uranium changes into radium, the radium changes into a gas called the radium emanation, and that again to what we call radium A, and so the process goes on, giving out energy at every stage, until at last we reach the last stage of all, which is, so far as we can tell at present, lead.
The World Set Free
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The radioactive properties of the metal are exactly the ones that can be forecast on the assumption that the radioactivity of the salts is an atomic property of the radium which is unaffected by the state of combination.
Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture
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Radium is an element resembling calcium, strontium, and barium in chemical properties; its atomic weight was determined by Mme. Curie, and found to be about 225, according to her first experiments; a redetermination gave a slightly higher value, which has been confirmed by a further investigation carried out by Sir T.E. Thorpe.
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
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Along the road to bismuth, a number of extremely high energy or otherwise dangerous alpha emitters will be present in the sample in small quantities: radium, actinium, thorium, francium, pollonium and radioactive lead, among others.
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The radium-bearing minerals are torbernite and autunite (hydrous copper-uranium and calcium-uranium phosphates), and are found in dark felsite dikes near their intersections with east-west gold-silver-quartz veins.
The Economic Aspect of Geology
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The uranium eventually decays to radium and, eventually to polonium - 210, a substance that, when inhaled, can endanger tissue health and damage the immune system.
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I then possessed one decigramme of very pure radium chloride.
Pierre Curie
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In the same article a local chemist speculated that the site was already leaching radium and a biophysicist called the ground at the site, located on a fault line, ‘very unstable.’
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Initial autopsies showed high amounts of radium and cesium in four deer livers.
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The radium-bearing minerals are torbernite and autunite (hydrous copper-uranium and calcium-uranium phosphates), and are found in dark felsite dikes near their intersections with east-west gold-silver-quartz veins.
The Economic Aspect of Geology
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The University of Southampton used mass spectrometry to probe samples for plutonium, radium and caesium.
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In 1898, after laboriously isolating various substances by successive chemical reactions and crystallizations of the products, which they then tested for their ability to ionize air, the Curies announced the discovery of polonium, and then of radium salts weighing about 0.1 gram that had been derived from tons of uranium ore.
Curie, Marie Sklodowska
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Continuing these investigations, Rutherford was able in 1919 to produce transmutations of atomic nuclei by bombarding nitrogen with helium nuclei from a radium source.
Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 - Presentation Speech
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In the case of radium, I want to know who had the skills to prepare radium sources, brush the mixture of alcohol and zinc sulfide from the small rectangular glasses used for scintillation counting, read the photographic plates of emulsions, set up apparatus for experimental work, analyze radium samples, define radium doses for medical use, and perform experiments.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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Along the way, these disintegration series produce radioactive isotopes of protactinium, thorium, actinium, radium, francium, radon, astatine, polonium, bismuth, lead, thallium and mercury.
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For example, in the uranium-ionium-radium series, uranium expels two a-particles and each of the six following a-ray products one, i.e. eight in all.
Ernest Rutherford - Nobel Lecture
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Screws or bolts used to fix lighting fixtures should be no less than 2 pieces. When insulated radium is less than 75mm, lighting fixture should be fixed by one screw or bolt.
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) The oldest part of the house, made of wood, was kept freshly painted, oyster-white shingles that glowed like radium in early dusk.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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M. and Mme. Curie, radium was also discovered by them in collaboration with Bémont, and actinium by Debierne.
Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 - Presentation Speech
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In both chapters 2 and 3, radium is shown to be a trafficking material that defined individual and institutional partnerships, the urban construction and architectural design of science buildings, and the exchanges of knowledge, instruments, and expertise.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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Rutherford was studying the structure of matter by bombarding a very thin gold foil with the alpha radiation from radium and polonium.
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The interest in radium for medical use was so great that radium preparations and apparatus to produce radioactive water quickly became commercially available in Vienna.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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A proposal was patented for a ceramic block pessary using radioactive elements such as thorium, actinium and even radium.
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Before broaching the subject of this lecture, I should like to recall that the discoveries of radium and of polonium were made by Pierre Curie in collaboration with me.
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They proposed to involve him in radium research by using his laboratory either under his or Haitinger's directorship.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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As the directors of the Vivarium revealed in their plan, the proposed laboratory would function as the regulator for the supplies, the dosimetry, and the handling and shipment of radium in Austrian hospitals. 91 It was one thing for the scientists to require a new research laboratory and it was quite another to envision themselves as the regulators of radium supplies in the hospitals of the entire country.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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The radium emanation is a gas about 111 times heavier than hydrogen; to this gas Sir William Ramsay has given the name _niton_.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
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I loved to hold its face close to mine in the dark and watch the scintillations produced every time a radium nucleus decayed.
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In their attempt to separate radium from bismuth, both contained in pitchblende, Marie and Pierre found that by crystallizing the chloride of radioactive barium from a solution, they obtained crystals that were more radioactive and richer in radium than the chloride which remained resolved.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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All isotopes of radium are radioactive with radium - 226 being the most stable.
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The devices were crude and consisted of two main kinds: a) the flat applicators (radium plaques) which were flexible or rigid and designed for external use and b) the spherical ones used in endocavitary applications.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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Over time she revealed to government and business the dangers of certain dyes, carbon monoxide, mercury, lead, radium (commonly used in wristwatch dials), benzene, the chemicals in storage batteries, and carbon disulfide and hydrogen sulfide bases which ware created during the process of making rayon.
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It was known as a "squeaker" because of the constant din it made while in use; the noise would cease only when radium was within a hundred feet of the mechanism.
The Beast of Space
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One becquerel means the disintegration of one nucleus (of the radium atom) per second.
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The discovery of radium, which made Marie curie mother to the atomic age.
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Combining radioactivity and medicine, the physicists crossed the boundary of their expertise and provided scientific support to doctors over issues of radium dosimetry.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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His device, the chromoradiometer, attracted the interest of the international community of physicians and was tried as a dosimetry apparatus for radium as well.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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_Lymphoma, enchondroma and osteoma_, if not too extensively involving the laryngeal walls, may be excised with basket punch forceps, but lymphoma is probably better treated by radium.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
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All four authors of this nomination letter were fully aware that Marie Curie alone, was responsible for the isolation of a decigram of pure radium.
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He expressed an early and strong interest in radium research and when the International Radium Standards Committee was founded in 1910, Meyer was appointed its secretary, an indication of his scientific success.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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In 1902 I succeeded in preparing a decigramme of chloride of pure radium which gave only the spectrum of the new element, radium.
Pierre Curie
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The radium tablets are officially guaranteed and the bath salts are the result of many years study in balneotherapy and hydrotherapy, and have demonstrated their effectiveness by the wonderful results that have been obtained during the last thirty years.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
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In 1904, its price was $10 – $15 per mg and just before the First World War, it escaladed to the astronomical price of $180.5 Radium showed up as a consumer commodity in luminous watches; in women's lotions and creams; in toothpastes, cigarettes, and radium condoms; in ointments for medical use; and in food, drinks, clothing, and endless medical products.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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Radon is present in the atmosphere because it is constantly being formed during the radioactive decay of uranium and radium.
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Radon is present in the atmosphere because it is constantly being formed during the radioactive decay of uranium and radium.
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In the process, she discovered two new elements that are millions and billions of times more radioactive than uranium: radium and polonium.
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This at once offered an explanation of the fact observed by Debierne that actinium as well as radium produced helium.
Ernest Rutherford - Nobel Lecture
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Rachel racism rad radar radiation radiation damage radical radical radioactive radioactive dating radioactive waste radioactivity radiology radio waves radium radon radwaste
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Before this time, uranium mining was insubstantial; the only reason it was mined was to obtain radium for cancer treatment and fluorescent dials.
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It is likely that the actinium series is related to that of radium.
Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture
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We found that pitchblende contains at least two radioactive materials, one of which, accompanying bismuth, has been given the name polonium, while the other, paired with barium, has been called radium.
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The radium-bearing minerals are torbernite and autunite (hydrous copper-uranium and calcium-uranium phosphates), and are found in dark felsite dikes near their intersections with east-west gold-silver-quartz veins.
The Economic Aspect of Geology
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Along the way, these disintegration series produce radioactive isotopes of protactinium, thorium, actinium, radium, francium, radon, astatine, polonium, bismuth, lead, thallium and mercury.
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We found that pitchblende contains at least two radioactive materials, one of which, accompanying bismuth, has been given the name polonium, while the other, paired with barium, has been called radium.
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Radon is produced when trace amounts of uranium and radium in the soil or rocks decay.
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He'll be having radium therapy for some time, and feels he isn't up to even the routine work.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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As I examined the heterogeneous collection of odds and ends that is always to be found in the pocket-pouch of a Martian warrior my hand fell upon the emblazoned radium flash torch of the black dator.
The Warlord of Mars
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Especially appealing are the ones inspired by Madame Curie, two-time Nobel prize winner who discovered radium and polonium and coined the term "radioactivity.
Edward Goldman: Hollywood: Art and Oscars
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The water is also often laden with barium, which is found in underground ore deposits and can cause high blood pressure, and radium, a naturally occurring radioactive substance.
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Decoctum radium Sonchi, si ante cibum sumatur, valet plurimum.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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We can tell how the elements of high atomic weight, such as uranium and thorium, are constantly giving off particles and are thus by loss or decomposition being changed over into other elements, such as radium, niton, polonium and lead.
Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
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She asked about having just the lump removed, and radium therapy.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Radium is readily absorbed into the body where it concentrates in the bone marrow and gives off very damaging alpha particles.
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And if the... the operation and radium treatment didn't work, she would be dying in a very public position.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Traditional radical actions like sit-ins, mass protest, even riots are belittled as ‘spectacles with radium half-lives’.
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Hahn diligently amassed this radioactive material by collecting small amounts from household products, such as americium from smoke detectors, thorium from camping lantern mantles, radium from clocks and tritium (as neutron moderator) from gun-sights.
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Considerable work, guided by the theory of radioactive transformations, has led to approximately 30 new radioactive elements being envisaged, classified in 4 series according to the primary substance: these series are uranium, radium, thorium and actinium.
Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture
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The uranium eventually decays to radium and, eventually to polonium-210, a substance that, when inhaled, can endanger tissue health and damage the immune system.
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The calculated period of radium is 2,500 years, while that of polonium is only 202 days, and that of niton 5.6 days.
Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
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In September 2009, Bayer signed an agreement with Algeta to develop and commercialize Alpharadin, also known as radium-223 chloride, a compound containing an alpha-particle-emitting nuclide for cancer patients with bone metastases.
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Having previously identified a new radioactive element, which they named polonium in honor of Marie's Polish origins, they have stumbled upon a second, which they called radium.
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36For the preparation of radium C, Dagmar adopted Pettersson's innovative method of using thin capillary tubes filled with radium emanation and dry oxygen.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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Along the way, these disintegration series produce radioactive isotopes of protactinium, thorium, actinium, radium, francium, radon, astatine, polonium, bismuth, lead, thallium and mercury.
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Originating from world leading research at the Norwegian Radium Hospital, the PCI method involves first injecting target cells with a photosensitiser.
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The Curies are best known for discovering radium.
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_Lymphoma, enchondroma and osteoma_, if not too extensively involving the laryngeal walls, may be excised with basket punch forceps, but lymphoma is probably better treated by radium.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
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There is radon gas in uranium mines because the disintegration of uranium leads to radium, which then forms radon as shown in the equation above.
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Open to medical practitioners, it further functioned as an intermediate space of collaboration between physicists and physicians for the development and improvement of methods applied in radium therapy.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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C, deposited from the radium-emanation on a thin wire, was used.
Ernest Rutherford - Nobel Lecture
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Among the commonly known alpha emitters are various isotopes of polonium, radium, thorium, uranium and all of the transuranium elements.
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He was the discoverer of the element radium.
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The expulsion of an - particle therefrom decreases the atomic weight by 4 units, necessitates (since the - particle carries two positive charges) the removal of two electrons from the shell in order to maintain electrical neutrality, and hence changes the chemical nature of the body, transmuting the element into one occupying a position two places to the left in the periodic system (for example, the change of radium into niton).
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
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Before broaching the subject of this lecture, I should like to recall that the discoveries of radium and of polonium were made by Pierre Curie in collaboration with me.
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There is not the smallest indication of pitch-blende anywhere in the neighbourhood, and radium, as even those little versed in chemistry or geology are aware, is only to be found in that particular ore.
Men of Affairs
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That's radioactive, but it takes two million years before it becomes protoactinium, which changes to uranium in twenty-seven days, which changes to thorium after a hundred and sixty thousand years, which changes to radium, then to actinium, then to --
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Naturally-occurring radium is about 200 times more radiotoxic than plutonium, and some organic toxins like Botulin toxin are still more toxic.
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The method used consisted in distilling under very pure hydrogen the amalgam of radium formed by the electrolysis of a chloride solution using a mercury cathode.
Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture
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I can only refer in passing here to the large amount of work done by various experimenters in analysing the long series of transformations of radium and thorium and actinium; the linking up of radium with uranium and the discovery by Boltwood of the long looked-for and elusive parent of radium, viz. ionium.
Ernest Rutherford - Nobel Lecture
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The Curies discovered radium, a radioactive substance, in uranium oxide ore.
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As it happened, in addition to radium, carnotite rock also contained much larger quantities of a metal called vanadium, which proved to be a hardening agent when blended into steel.
Yellow Dirt
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Clinic, a primary epithelioma of the trachea was retarded for 2 years by the use of radium applied by Dr. William S. Newcomet, radium-therapist, and Miss Katherine E. S.haeffer, technician.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
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In 1911, a protocol for trade in radium preparations and a provisional plan for the function of the Radiumstation at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus were signed at the Radium Institute. 54 Shortly afterwards and on several occasions, radium was prepared at the Radium
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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From the publication of the first volume, Murray and his fellow editors had been collecting material for a supplement, painfully aware of omissions (bondmaid, collide, radium, appendicitis).
Analyzing Becky Sharp’s Trash
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Note 27: The German physicist Friedrich Ernst Dorn first noticed in 1900 that radium was giving off a gas which he named niton, the radium emanation later known as radon.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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Biting caustics that ate into the flesh of past generations of cancer patients have been obsolesced by radiation with X-ray and radium. . .
The Emperor of All Maladies
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Along the way, these disintegration series produce radioactive isotopes of protactinium, thorium, actinium, radium, francium, radon, astatine, polonium, bismuth, lead, thallium and mercury.