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Radium is a
chemical element; it has
symbol Ra and
atomic number 88. It is the
sixth element in group 2 of the
periodic table, also
known as the alkaline...
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Radium Girls were
female factory workers who
contracted radiation poisoning from
painting radium dials –
watch dials and
hands with self-luminous paint...
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refer to:
Radium, Colorado,
United States Radium, Kansas,
United States Radium, Minnesota,
United States Radium, Virginia,
United States Radium Hot Springs...
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isotope of
radium is 226Ra with a half-life of 1600 years. 226Ra
occurs in the
decay chain of 238U (often
referred to as the
radium series).
Radium has 34...
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Radium girl may
refer to: The
Radium Girls,
female workers who
painted glowing radium watch dials in the 1920s and
suffered from
radium jaw and death...
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Radium jaw, or
radium necrosis, is a
historic occupational disease brought on by the
ingestion and
subsequent absorption of
radium into the
bones of radium...
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Radium dials are watch,
clock and
other instrument dials painted with
luminous paint containing radium-226 to
produce radioluminescence.
Radium dials...
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research on
radium. Mrs.
William Brown Meloney,
after interviewing Curie,
created a
Marie Curie Radium Fund and
raised money to buy
radium, publicising...
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District Radium Institute National Radium Institute, Denver, Colorado,
United States Sino-Belgium
Radium Institute Institute for
Radium Research, Vienna...
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Radium-223 (223Ra, Ra-223) is an
isotope of
radium with an 11.4-day half-life. It was
discovered in 1905 by T. Godlewski, a
Polish chemist from Kraków...