| 单词 | radium |
| 例句 | Without realizing the danger of contact with radium, Kelly brought some back to the United States in his pockets and regularly traveled the world collecting more. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The morning of Henrietta’s first treatment, a taxi driver picked up a doctor’s bag filled with thin glass tubes of radium from a clinic across town. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The man was all alone in the night—a ragbag with a round, flat face that glowed like a radium dial. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Henrietta’s tumor was the invasive type, and like hospitals nationwide, Hopkins treated all invasive cervical carcinomas with radium, a white radioactive metal that glows an eerie blue. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He sewed a plaque filled with radium to the outer surface of her cervix and packed another plaque against it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Before Henrietta left the hospital, a doctor put her feet in the stirrups again and removed the radium. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He would later die of cancer, most likely caused by his regular exposure to radium, as would a resident who traveled with Kelly and also transported radium in his pockets. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When radium was first discovered in the late 1800s, headlines nationwide hailed it as “a substitute for gas, electricity, and a positive cure for every disease.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The tumor had completely vanished from the radium treatments. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Lawrence calculated the cyclotron’s yield as the equivalent of more than one ton of radium—more radium than was known to exist on earth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By the 1940s, several studies —one of them conducted by Howard Jones, Henrietta’s physician—showed that radium was safer and more effective than surgery for treating invasive cervical cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z By Rutherford’s reckoning, therefore, the helium atom had two orbital electrons and a nucleus comprising four protons and two electrons; radium had 138 electrons and a nucleus of 226 protons and 88 electrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In other words, alpha particles produced naturally by radium and polonium had exhausted their usefulness as probes of the nucleus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But about two weeks after her second radium treatment, Henrietta got her period—the flow was heavy and it didn’t stop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The visit was the brainchild of Mrs. Marie Mattingly Meloney, a New York socialite and magazine entrepreneur who had been shocked to learn that Madame Curies research was hobbled by a meager supply of radium. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Originally the business had been named the Idaho Gold and Radium Mining Company, after Schnatterly claimed to have found a vein of radium worth millions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Rutherford experimented by bombarding gold foils with alpha particles emanating from a glass vial of purified radium. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z According to Howard Jones, Henrietta got the same care any white patient would have; the biopsy, the radium treatment, and radiation were all standard for the day. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the process of their work, the Curies also found two new elements–polonium, which they named after her native country, and radium. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z That made the substance much more potent than radium and therefore useful for physics and medical research alike. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The cancer was easy to keep secret, because she only had to go back to Hopkins once, for a checkup and a second radium treatment. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But radium destroys any cells it encounters, and patients who’d taken it for trivial problems began dying. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Henrietta spent the next two days in the hospital, recovering from her first radium treatment. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There were more starving Russians with faces like radium dials. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Though radium often causes relentless nausea, vomiting, weakness, and anemia, there’s no record of Henrietta having any side effects, and no one remembers her complaining of feeling sick. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The workers, who marked watch dials with luminous radium paint, customarily licked their brushes to a fine point, ingesting the radioactive substance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He sent her home with instructions to call the clinic if she had problems, and to come back for a second dose of radium in two and a half weeks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Within two weeks, some of the nodules had grown to two centimeters —about the size of Henrietta’s tumor when she went in for her radium treatments. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The significance of Tuve’s claim was not lost on any physicist who recalled Marie Curie’s 1921 voyage to the United States for her single gram of radium, valued at $100,000. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Wharton slipped a tube filled with radium inside Henrietta’s cervix, and sewed it in place. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The old guard’s natural radiation sources, the thimblefuls of radium and clumps of radium-beryllium they used to make the discoveries that transformed physics—nuclear disintegration, the neutron, and artificial radioactivity—had had their day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was the consent form she’d signed before her radium treatment, when the original HeLa sample was taken. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It's by American Melanie Marnich and deals with an infamous case in 1920s Chicago when a group of female workers suffered radium poisoning from painting luminous watch dials. These Shining Lives – review 2013-05-16T17:24:09Z These “radium girls,” to get a finer tip, Would pass their paintbrush ’tween pursed lips a bit, But Mae O’Donnell could not stand that sip Of magic paint, so she was urged to quit. Style Invitational Week 1109: Fictoids of Columbia — tell us some fake D.C. trivia 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z She was awarded her second Nobel in chemistry in 1911 for her discovery of two elements, radium and polonium. ArtsBeat: Meryl Streep to Participate in Alan Alda's Marie Curie Play 2011-05-09T19:09:48Z It lays bare their childhoods, their headlong love story, their scientific collaboration and the way their toxic discoveries, which included radium and polonium, poisoned them in slow motion. Books of The Times: Inventing a Graphic Treatment for the Curies 2010-12-21T17:05:40Z Like the Curies sampling their own radium, Mr. Purdon submitted himself to what would become the first performance in the fall of 2001. Odyssey Works Makes Art for and About One Person 2012-10-07T05:10:06Z Their dreams quickly shatter when Jo develops concerning symptoms — including losing a tooth — and the sisters learn about a group that believes radium is toxic and exposure can be fatal. ‘Radium Girls’ Review: When Work Takes a Toxic Turn 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z One of the so-called radium girls, Fryer painted luminous dials on watches for the United States Radium Corporation, a job that caused many of those performing it to develop radiation sickness in the 1920s. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z It conveys how Lacks, whose cervical cancer cells were harvested without her consent at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951, was treated unsuccessfully with radium tubes. Four Artists to Watch Now 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z She employed cyanotype printing because she wanted to capture, she writes, “what Marie Curie called radium’s ‘spontaneous luminosity.’ ” Books of The Times: Inventing a Graphic Treatment for the Curies 2010-12-21T17:05:40Z So this last of the radium girls made her mark As the first one to die and not glow in the dark. Style Invitational Week 1109: Fictoids of Columbia — tell us some fake D.C. trivia 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z To this mix, he added a dab of radium, the newly discovered element glowing with radioactive energy, and waited overnight. What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z What seemed ill luck for Mae at age eighteen, Became the gift of life and happiness, For soon thereafter radium girls were seen With gruesome symptoms — death sometimes, no less. Style Invitational Week 1109: Fictoids of Columbia — tell us some fake D.C. trivia 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The active ingredient in these drinks was radium, a radioactive element that releases a packet of radiant energy with every atomic decay. Yum yum radium: Energy drinks are bad, but not as bad as they were years ago 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z In the process, uranium, radium and other contaminants will be left floating behind in the aquifer. EPA reverses water pollution decision after lobbyist steps in 2013-03-13T22:51:00Z At a dinner party Pierre unveiled a small, glowing cylinder of radium for their guests. Books of The Times: Inventing a Graphic Treatment for the Curies 2010-12-21T17:05:40Z The radium wristwatch fell quickly from grace When it poisoned the women who painted its face. Style Invitational Week 1109: Fictoids of Columbia — tell us some fake D.C. trivia 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, ingested radium gets incorporated into bone and all of its radiation energy is, therefore, deposited in bone tissue. Yum yum radium: Energy drinks are bad, but not as bad as they were years ago 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z In the 1920s, when radium was advertised as a luminous substance with health benefits, two teenage sisters make ends meet working at New Jersey’s American Radium Factory. ‘Radium Girls’ Review: When Work Takes a Toxic Turn 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z An example: Colette goes missing, along with her radium samples, and Younger grabs a curtain rod. Books of The Times: Brimming With Clues That Are Hard to Link 2011-02-03T00:08:48Z She and her husband, Pierre, discovered polonium and radium — she coined the word radioactivity — work which led to medical advances and the atomic bomb. ‘Radioactive’ Review: Marie Curie and the Science of Autonomy 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z 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. | 'Radiance': ?Radiance? by Alan Alda at Geffen Playhouse - Review 2011-11-27T21:00:09Z Contamination largely consists of low levels of uranium, thorium, radium and associated decay products. Cleanup cost for nuclear contamination sites has risen nearly $1 billion since 2016, report says 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z The use of radium isotopes allowed the scientists to track how much nutrient is transported from the land and shelf sediments via invisible groundwater flows. Discovery of invisible nutrient discharge on Great Barrier Reef raises concerns 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z The city asked regulators in 2010 for permission to withdraw Lake Michigan water because its wells are contaminated with radium. Milwaukee suburb delaying start of Lake Michigan water withdrawals to early October 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Led by Professor Penelope Ottewell, the team will investigate investigate whether the drug radium-223, which is used to treat prostate cancer, could also be used in breast cancer cases. University of Sheffield researching new drugs for breast cancer 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z That all changed after Marie Curie discovered that radium, another type of metal, also produced energy on its own — but in much greater quantities. Will "godlike AI" kill us all — or unlock the secrets of the universe? Probably not 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z In this process, they produce specific isotopes of other radioactive elements such as thorium, protactinium and radium. The US will send depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine — an expert explains their health effects 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z The EPA regulates phosphogypsum because the material contains radium-226, a naturally occurring radioactive substance that produces radon gas, which is a hazardous air pollutant. Florida may study use of radioactive waste in building roads 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The city asked regulators in 2010 for permission to withdraw Lake Michigan water because its wells are contaminated with radium. Milwaukee suburb delaying start of Lake Michigan water withdrawals to early October 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z She had radium - a radioactive substance - sewn into her cervix to try to kill off the tumour. Cancer research victim's descendant leads medical campaign 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z In fact, you can literally see radium glowing with the naked eye in a dark room. Will "godlike AI" kill us all — or unlock the secrets of the universe? Probably not 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z At these sites, uranium, lead, nitrates, radium and other substances were found at levels higher than models had predicted and regulators had allowed. "A ticking atomic bomb": The Cold War legacy lurking in U.S. groundwater 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z It also found high levels of polonium, radium and other material inside the school. Medical guidance sought after contamination closes school 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z It also found high levels of polonium, radium and other material in various places throughout the school. Radioactive waste finding raises worries at Missouri school 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z The report found significant levels of radioactive isotope lead-210, polonium, radium and other toxins when researchers took samples from the school in August, according to the St. Louis Dispatch. Radioactive contamination found at elementary school in St. Louis suburbs 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z That's how radioactive metals like uranium and radium produce their own internal energy, without any external source. Will "godlike AI" kill us all — or unlock the secrets of the universe? Probably not 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z Levels of the radioactive isotope lead-210, polonium, radium and other toxins were “far in excess” of what Boston Chemical had expected. Radioactive waste found at Missouri elementary school 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z They can contain radioactive uranium, thorium and radium along with toxic metals such as barium, cadmium and lead, according to the environmental group ManaSota 88. Pollution from Florida mining a concern with Hurricane Ian 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Bravo said, leaning against a pickup truck on a rocky road overlooking an old water well that was contaminated with radium. State of unease: Colorado basin tribes without water rights 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The gruesome death of a wealthy industrialist, who became psychologically addicted to the brew, alerted the unsuspecting to the dangers of radium salt elixirs. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Exposure to the gamma rays emitted by radium poses a radiological hazard, however, which very likely caused Sochocky's own death at age 45. Will "godlike AI" kill us all — or unlock the secrets of the universe? Probably not 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z Rutherford bombarded nitrogen atoms with high-speed α particles from a natural radioactive isotope of radium and observed protons resulting from the reaction: Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z Fertilizers are made from phosphate rock that contains naturally occurring uranium and thorium, which decay to radium, and radium decays to the radioactive gas radon, the Environmental Protection Agency says. Pollution from Florida mining a concern with Hurricane Ian 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Since = 91 , the radius of Sirius is 91 times larger than the radium of its faint companion. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z For example, radium and polonium, discovered by the Curies, decay faster than uranium. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z The victims of this new industry, the women poisoned or killed who were known as the "radium girls," were collateral damage of the push to get rich off radioactivity. Will "godlike AI" kill us all — or unlock the secrets of the universe? Probably not 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z By volume, the waste produced from mining uranium, called uranium mill tailings, is the largest waste and contains the radioactive element radium, which decays to produce radon, a radioactive gas. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z The components they believe caused the worker injuries include arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury and radium, but not silica. Coal ash workers dying as lawsuit over illnesses drags on 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z It also holds uranium, thorium, and radium, and emits radon gas. Environmentalists target mountains of fertilizer waste 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors and a smaller number of people exposed by their occupation, such as radium dial painters, have been fully documented. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z The victims of this industry were called the "radium girls," as most factory workers were young women. Will "godlike AI" kill us all — or unlock the secrets of the universe? Probably not 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The salt isn’t the only problem: Salts also increase the amount of elements such as cadmium, lead and even radium in groundwater. Citing danger to freshwater, scientists say we need to put brakes on road salts 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z In one of the 1930s’ signature screwball comedies, “Nothing Sacred,” Carole Lombard is a “radium girl” mistakenly diagnosed as dying of radium poisoning. From sacred to profane: A brief history of Southern California's hot springs 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Then came radioactive elements like polonium and radium. Is science stuck? The "Great Stagnation Debate," explained 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z They were the unwitting collateral damage of a push by Sochocky and others to get rich off the hype surrounding radium. Will "godlike AI" kill us all — or unlock the secrets of the universe? Probably not 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z A husband and wife team working in Paris, Marie and Pierre Curie, discovered two of the missing elements, which they named radium and polonium. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Phosphogypsum contains “appreciable quantities” of radioactive materials, like uranium and radium, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Florida Officials Warn of 20-Foot ‘Wall of Water’ if Reservoir Breaches 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z How much if any radium was actually in radium springs waters? From sacred to profane: A brief history of Southern California's hot springs 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The stacks are waste from fertilizer production and contain small amounts of naturally occurring radium and uranium. Tribes sue to stop Idaho land swap amid pollution concerns 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z In reality, the radium industry both generated huge profits and caused great harm, leaving many workers with devastating illnesses and killing many others. Will "godlike AI" kill us all — or unlock the secrets of the universe? Probably not 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z In vast swathes of the country, everyday rocks like granite and shale hold deposits of uranium, thorium and radium under the soil. There’s No Better Time to Clear the Air 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z And it’s disturbing to see these women licking the radium-dipped paintbrushes because it’s akin to, well, licking radium. Review: Poisoned on the job, 'Radium Girls' fight back 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, it politicizes Curie’s scientific discoveries of radium and polonium by repeated flash-forwards to Hiroshima, nuclear weapon tests in Nevada and the Chernobyl accident. Feedback: Gloria Steinem and Eleanor Smeal fact check 'Mrs. America' 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z It was dirty work, Marie and Pierre Curie’s discovery of radium and polonium. Review: A Marie Curie biopic in ‘Radioactive’ 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Just as the rush to cash in on radium destroyed people's lives, so too is the race to build AGI leaving a trail of damage and destruction. Will "godlike AI" kill us all — or unlock the secrets of the universe? Probably not 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z Around 1900, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie’s husband, deliberately burned his arm with radium as part of their radiation experiments. China firm uses workers to ‘pre-test’ vaccine in global race 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. John Updike: My innermost swing thoughts - Golf Digest 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Curie, together with her husband Pierre, extracted naturally occurring radium and polonium from pitch-blend, a constituent of coal. Feedback: Gloria Steinem and Eleanor Smeal fact check 'Mrs. America' 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Some “radium” products actually included radium and set off Geiger counters, then and now. The lethal legacy of early 20th-century radiation quackery 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z After a laboratory courtship, the Polish scientist and her French husband discover radium in 1898. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Being a British HRH is as rare as radium and every bit as luminous. Commentary: Do Harry and Meghan want to have their royal gateau and eat it, too? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z She worked on several lines of research while there, but her most famous work focused on developing polonium as an alternative radioactive material to radium. Elizabeth Rona, the wandering polonium woman, changed radiation science forever 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z They did not invent or manufacture radium or polonium; they did not invent or manufacture “radioactivity.” Feedback: Gloria Steinem and Eleanor Smeal fact check 'Mrs. America' 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z In 1932, he died of radium poisoning that ravaged his jaw, skull, brain and internal organs. The lethal legacy of early 20th-century radiation quackery 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z “As a child, I read about Marie Curie who used the proceeds of her first Nobel prize to buy a gram of radium to further her research,” said Duflo. 3 Nobel winners will donate prize money to support research 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z The diagnostic and therapeutical use of X-rays, the employment of radium, and many other advances are further gifts from science. From the archive 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z However, radium was rare and expensive, hampering scientific progress as labs jostled over limited supplies. Elizabeth Rona, the wandering polonium woman, changed radiation science forever 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Asked by a reporter what she would do with the winnings, Duflo noted that the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, Marie Curie, used her money to buy a gram of the element radium. 3 share Nobel Prize in economics for ‘experimental approach’ to solving poverty 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z “During this period of history, the price of radium was quite high,” Willis said. The lethal legacy of early 20th-century radiation quackery 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z “Our field is a collaborative one, so supporting the next generation of economists is our ‘gram of radium.’” 3 Nobel winners will donate prize money to support research 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Coal ash - the gunk left after pollution equipment captures the worst of the toxic soot that once poured out of power plant smokestacks - contains heavy metals and carcinogens, including lead, mercury, arsenic and radium. Trump’s EPA shifts more environmental enforcement to states 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Polonium, a strongly radioactive metal that produced the same type of radiation as radium, fit the bill. Elizabeth Rona, the wandering polonium woman, changed radiation science forever 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Uranium can also break down into other radioactive materials, like radium — and it can release the noble gas radon, which can cause lung cancer in large concentrations. That uranium ore found at a Grand Canyon museum isn’t as scary as it sounds 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Other products included only a bit of radium. The lethal legacy of early 20th-century radiation quackery 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z There is sure to be massive amounts of toxic and carcinogenic heavy metals like lead, arsenic and selenium and could well be radioactive isotopes like radium-226 or uranium-238, depending on the local geology. A Tidal Wave of Mud 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Another problem was the nature of a curious ‘emanation’ from radium. Celebrate the women behind the periodic table 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Helpfully, also popped into the kit was a coupon for ordering replacement uranium and radium through the post. Most wanted? Christmas gifts from years ago 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z He also noted the danger in glow-in-the-dark watch dials painted with radioactive radium. Perspective | Did D.C. stores really X-ray children’s feet to sell them shoes? 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Heightened levels of pollutants, including arsenic and radium in some cases, were documented at plants in numerous states, from Virginia to Alaska. EPA fans struggling coal industry by rolling back pollution regulations 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Other tribes are also affected by the annual disposal of 100 million tons of coal ash, which is contaminated with arsenic, mercury, lead and radium. The Trump agenda has Native American tribes feeling under siege 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z In 1898, they identified spectroscopic lines of two new elements — radium and polonium. Celebrate the women behind the periodic table 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Heightened levels of pollutants- including arsenic and radium in some cases - were documented at plants in numerous states, from Virginia and North Carolina to Washington and Alaska. APNewsBreak: US utilities find water pollution at ash sites 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Heightened levels of pollutants— including arsenic and radium in some cases — were documented at plants in numerous states, from Virginia and North Carolina to Washington and Alaska. APNewsBreak: US utilities find water pollution at ash sites 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z So when Priya and me turned our heads, we looked down at the smoky twilit water fuming and roiling phosphorescent white under electric arc lamps, like it was picked out in radium paint. Read an excerpt from Elizabeth Bear’s next steampunk adventure Stone Mad 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The researchers compared two data sets of radium measurements—one collected by another research group in 2007, and one that they collected themselves in 2015. Erosion May Transform the Arctic Food Chain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Yet it took them more than three years to grind, dissolve, boil, filter and crystallize tonnes of the mineral to extract just 0.1 gram of radium compound. Celebrate the women behind the periodic table 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Vengosh added that the discovery at some sites of radium at levels far exceeding drinking water standards - which can increase the risk of cancer - were of particular concern. APNewsBreak: US utilities find water pollution at ash sites 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Vengosh added that the discovery at some sites of radium at levels far exceeding drinking water standards — which can increase the risk of cancer — were of particular concern. APNewsBreak: US utilities find water pollution at ash sites 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Curie’s accomplishments included the development of the theory of radioactivity, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two chemical elements, polonium and radium. 15 Mathematical Curiosities to Celebrate Marie Curie's 150th Birthday 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z They found that there was a significant increase in radium from the first data set to the second. Erosion May Transform the Arctic Food Chain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z For example, radium behaves a lot like barium and has a heavier atomic weight, so it fits just below barium in the periodic table. Celebrate the women behind the periodic table 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z "But was she shown discovering radium? No, she was timidly peeking over her husband's shoulder as he spoke to somebody else, a man who looked elegant and distinguished." 'We can't teach girls of the future with books of the past' 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Chemical and Engineering News reported studies that analyzed spills of fracking wastewater – wastewater intended for wells like those in my town – and uncovered chemicals including radium and lead, which can linger in soil for decades. Far away from any witnesses, my small town is being poisoned by fracking waste 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z It contained radium, a highly radioactive element, and the stuff was inescapable. ‘The Radium Girls’ tells of the women whose deaths revolutionized the workplace 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z Doctors stitched tubes and pouches filled with radium inside her cervix, sewing them and packing them in place. When Henrietta Lacks had cervical cancer, it was a ‘death sentence.’ Her cells would help change that. 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Over that time, studies showed that coal-fired fuel produced a dirty mix of particulate matter and chemicals such as mercury, benzene and radium that cause respiratory illnesses and heart disease. The standoff between Trump and green groups just boiled into war 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z I guess it's sophomoric, not as clever as radium stadium, and potty humor is often looked down upon by writers, but still - Citi Field? One Guarantee for the Chicago White Sox’ New Stadium Name: Derision 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z After Henri Becquerel discovered the radioactivity of uranium in 1896, Marie and Pierre Curie discovered even more radioactive elements polonium and radium. The World's Oldest Man Was Born 113 Years Ago. Here's What Else Happened Then 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The mining unearthed a toxic and radioactive mix of chemical elements, including arsenic, molybdenum, selenium, uranium, radium and thorium. Mine cleanup at Riley Pass finally begins after 51 years 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Waukesha’s drinking water is tainted with naturally occurring radium, and the city says Lake Michigan, about 20 miles away, is the best alternative. Governors to vote on city's request for Lake Michigan water 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Waukesha's drinking water is tainted with naturally occurring radium, and the city is seeking a new source. A regional regulating group meets this week in Chicago to consider a request from a Milwaukee suburb to draw water from Lake Michigan 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z I guess it's sophomoric, not as clever as radium stadium, and potty... One Guarantee for the Chicago White Sox’ New Stadium Name: Derision 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Tons of radioactive radium and graphite shot 1,000 meters into the sky and began drifting to the ground for miles around the nuclear plant. Fukushima on the Hudson: How America is vulnerable to nuclear disaster 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Water levels have dropped in city wells, and the deep aquifer — depleted from years of regional use — shows high levels of radium, a naturally occurring element thought to be dangerous to people, and other contaminants. Waukesha Plan for Lake Michigan Water Raises Worries 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Dr. Jones started his career at Johns Hopkins, initially working part-time while also working in the private clinic of the gynecologist Dr. Howard Kelly, who had pioneered radium therapy for cancer patients. Howard W. Jones Jr., a Pioneer of Reproductive Medicine, Dies at 104 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Production of polonium from radium-226 would need sophisticated lab facilities because the latter substance produces dangerous levels of penetrating radiation. What is polonium-210? - BBC News 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z “There was even radium shoe polish, which didn’t have radium in it, thank God,” Mr. Gray says. Marketers Use Metal to Talk Tough 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z It detected raised radium levels in some homes, but it was not enough to explain the phenomenon. Mystery of Kazakhstan sleeping sickness solved, says government 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The city has agreed to provide water that meets federal standards for radium by June 2018. Waukesha Plan for Lake Michigan Water Raises Worries 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z There, the radium enters into the limestone from which most of the local houses are built. What's the most radioactive city? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z However, the substance, historically called radium F, is very hard for doctors to spot once it's in the body. What is polonium-210? - BBC News 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Some watches did have radium, however, and a lawsuit in the 1920s against U.S. Marketers Use Metal to Talk Tough 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z In the course of her work she also discovered two new elements, polonium and radium. How To Do Great Things, Starting Right Now 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Due to the adverse effects of radium exposure, Rolex switched to using tritium, marking luminous dials with an underline for a short period of time. The Essential Vintage Rolex Market Guide 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z To undertake their study, the researchers obtained a sealed sample of Marcellus wastewater and then measured selected radioactive isotopes that appeared as radium decayed into daughter products. Study raises questions about measuring radioactivity in fracking wastewater 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z No female inventor story would be complete without a mention of Marie Curie, who—alongside her husband Pierre—discovered radium and polonium. Ten Female Inventors Who Saved Our Lives 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z In the 1910s, radium enjoyed a spin in the sun, until the toxicity of radiation was discovered. Marketers Use Metal to Talk Tough 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z "There's long been a need for cesium, strontium, and radium contamination issues to be handled in such a way that it protects the environment and food supplies." This chemical could protect plants from radioactive fallout at Fukushima 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z This watch often featured a luminous dial, which contained radium in the early 1920s and 1930s. The Essential Vintage Rolex Market Guide 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The half-lives, radioactivity, and chemistry of radium isotopes and their decay products vary considerably, the researchers note. Study raises questions about measuring radioactivity in fracking wastewater 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z That mixture also contains small amounts of radium, a byproduct of uranium, and other sediments. North Dakota: oil producers aim to cut radioactive waste bills 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z And a brief science lesson: a curie is a unit of radioactivity named after radium discoverers Marie and Pierre Curie — roughly equivalent to the amount of radioactivity in a gram of the radium-226 isotope. Inside the Beltway: Obama in ‘legacy protection mode’ 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The excitement engendered by this discovery is as thrilling to read about as Edison’s “light bulb moments” or Curie’s discovery of radium. Book review: ‘The Birth of the Pill,’ and the reinvention of sex, by Jonathan Eig Doris Drucker didn’t, and couldn’t, invent radium, but she did go on to have a full and wonderful life. How The Drucker Forum Was Born: A Tribute To Doris Drucker 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Waste from atomic bomb production in downtown St. Louis was dumped in the creek in the 1940s, including uranium, thorium and radium. Study to see if cancer cluster exists 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z The stretch of Fife coastline affected is contaminated with radium from scrapped aircraft instrument panels. Dalgety Bay radioactive plan agreed 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Geological Survey has found to produce higher levels of radium than conventional oil and gas reserves. Fracking Regulations Weak and Scarce Despite Natural Gas Bonanza 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z A magical new element was discovered in the Edwardian era - a source of energy and brightness that delighted and fascinated the Edwardians - radium. 10 dangerous things in Victorian/Edwardian homes 2013-12-10T04:07:26Z They may inhale radon gas which is released during drilling and produced by the decay of radium, raising their risk of lung cancer. Strange Byproduct Of Fracking Boom: Radioactive Socks 2013-07-24T13:00:00Z The radium, which mimics calcium, binds with minerals in a patient’s bones, where it delivers radiation that destroys cancer cells without inflicting as much damage to surrounding tissues as older radiation therapies. Well: New Radiation Therapy Prolongs Prostate Cancer Survival 2013-07-17T21:25:13Z The situations covered by these new guidelines are similar to someone dying of thirst who has the chance to drink fresh water having 2,000 pCi per gallon of radium in it. Obama's EPA Makes A Rad Decision 2013-05-19T15:43:30Z The chemical mixture used to drill the well — the drilling mud — tested positive for radium at levels over 100 times the safety limits for disposal at a local landfill. Fracking Regulations Weak and Scarce Despite Natural Gas Bonanza 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Yet, as we now well know, radium is a source of radiation poisoning - if ingested, it could lead to anaemia, bone fractures, necrosis of the jaw, and leukaemia. 10 dangerous things in Victorian/Edwardian homes 2013-12-10T04:07:26Z The socks often contain naturally occurring radioactive materials—radium is the usual suspect—and may be dumped to avoid more costly disposal at radioactive waste depositories out of state. Strange Byproduct Of Fracking Boom: Radioactive Socks 2013-07-24T13:00:00Z The new drug contains radium 223, which targets bone and emits alpha particles that are far more massive and energetic than the beta particles emitted by older radioimmunotherapies like strontium. Well: New Radiation Therapy Prolongs Prostate Cancer Survival 2013-07-17T21:25:13Z The team isolated two species, radium 224 and radon 220, which they then channeled into a beam and aimed at a second target. Pear-Shaped Nucleus Boosts Search for Alternatives to 'Standard Model' Physics 2013-05-10T15:15:05.820Z Long-term exposure to radium increases the risk of developing several diseases. Fracking Truck Sets Off Radiation Alarm At Landfill 2013-04-24T18:44:30Z Above all, there was a craze for glow-in-the-dark watch faces, which were painted by the "radium girls". 10 dangerous things in Victorian/Edwardian homes 2013-12-10T04:07:26Z Mined phosphate also tends to include radioactive elements, such as uranium, radium, radioactive lead, radon, thorium, polonium, and cadmium, because these are inescapable trace elements in phosphate ore extraction. Can Soil Replace Oil as a Source of Energy? [Excerpt] 2013-04-05T18:15:00.207Z Fracking fluid also contains chemicals added by drillers, while produced water can be laced with heavy metals and radium or other radioactive materials. U.S. Proposal to Move Fracking Wastewater by Barge Stirs Debate 2013-04-04T17:15:02.247Z Butler says that type of simple description does not work for his pear-shaped radium. Pear-Shaped Nucleus Boosts Search for Alternatives to 'Standard Model' Physics 2013-05-10T15:15:05.820Z Inhaled or ingested radium increases the risk of developing such diseases as lymphoma, bone cancer, and diseases that affect the formation of blood, such as leukemia and aplastic anemia. Fracking Truck Sets Off Radiation Alarm At Landfill 2013-04-24T18:44:30Z Bayer, which on Wednesday said it was requesting EU approval for the drug, will market radium-223 alone in Europe if the treatment is approved there. Bayer seeks FDA approval for cancer drug radium-223 2012-12-14T17:35:21Z The catch is that the aquifer water contains higher levels of radium than federal standards allow, so it must be diluted with reservoir water until a treatment plant can be built. The Texas Tribune: Time for West Texas to Face Long-Term Water Needs 2012-10-07T02:13:18Z Recently, Stark Concerned Citizens, an anti-drilling group, asked Ohio regulators why radioactive materials such as radium weren’t identified or disclosed when injected into Class 2 wells. The trillion-gallon wastewater loophole 2012-09-22T14:00:00Z The cluster model, for example, treats pears like helium nuclei stuck onto the sides of plain spheres, and predicts that the lighter isotopes of radium should be more strongly pear shaped than the heavier ones. Pear-Shaped Nucleus Boosts Search for Alternatives to 'Standard Model' Physics 2013-05-10T15:15:05.820Z External exposure to radium’s gamma radiation increases the risk of cancer to varying degrees in all tissues and organs.” Fracking Truck Sets Off Radiation Alarm At Landfill 2013-04-24T18:44:30Z Recently, Stark Concerned Citizens, an anti-drilling group, asked Ohio regulators why radioactive materials such as radium weren't identified or disclosed when injected into Class 2 wells. Safety Rules for Fracking Disposal Wells Often Ignored 2012-09-20T18:45:00.590Z It releases a cocktail of chemicals from a menu of more than 600 toxic substances, climate-changing methane, radium and, of course, uranium. Op-Ed Contributor: Destroying Precious Land to Drill for Gas 2012-08-28T16:37:37Z "Marie Curie never patented her discoveries so a lot of people rode the radium wave." France's 20th century radium craze still haunts Paris 2012-07-19T07:56:39Z The latest result confirms that radium isotopes should be a good place to look for electric dipoles, and that some isotopes of thorium and uranium might be even better. Pear-Shaped Nucleus Boosts Search for Alternatives to 'Standard Model' Physics 2013-05-10T15:15:05.820Z The truck was emitting gamma radiation from radium 226 at almost ten times the level permitted at the landfill. Fracking Truck Sets Off Radiation Alarm At Landfill 2013-04-24T18:44:30Z The next failed treatment noted in the paper was radium. First Mention : History of Battle Against Leukemia 2012-06-04T19:25:31Z Instruments coated with "glow in the dark" paint containing radium were burned and buried at the site. Contamination at Kinloss probed 2012-05-18T16:46:25Z The factory workers used to color the dials with glow-in-the-dark paint made from radium powder and zinc sulphide. France's 20th century radium craze still haunts Paris 2012-07-19T07:56:39Z In fact, the latest results show that radium 224 is less lopsided than radium 226, calling the cluster model into doubt. Pear-Shaped Nucleus Boosts Search for Alternatives to 'Standard Model' Physics 2013-05-10T15:15:05.820Z Great art is something that is made and that lives in itself; like that stuff, radium, which was discovered the year before last, it eternally gives out energy without consuming itself. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Meanwhile, Navajos continue to be exposed to high levels of radioactivity in the form of uranium and its decay products, like radon and radium. Uranium Mines Dot Navajo Land, Neglected and Still Perilous 2012-03-31T17:11:23Z As long as radium remains buried, it's of no great concern. Contamination at Kinloss probed 2012-05-18T16:46:25Z Curie herself died at 66 from her prolonged, unprotected exposure to radium. France's 20th century radium craze still haunts Paris 2012-07-19T07:56:39Z The theory is, of course, a sound one; but it may now be supplemented by supposing the sun to contain a certain small amount of radium. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z The man had written three or four brilliant monographs on poisons and the uses of radium, and it was through and by these that the reporter had managed to pick up his acquaintance. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z Tyndall might have to revise the conclusions of his once famous Belfast address in the presence of radium. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Ironically, its active ingredient is radium, a substance more usually thought of as a cause of cancer than as a treatment. Treating prostate cancer: The men?s room 2012-03-08T16:00:34Z The striking discovery was, in 1903, made by the same investigators that the spontaneous luminosity of radium gives a spectrum of a kind never before obtained without the aid of powerful excitation, electrical or thermal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Prof. E. Rutherford, the well-known authority on radium, suggests that possibly radium is a source of heat from within the earth. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z However, at present it seems unlikely that it will ever be possible to produce more than half an ounce of radium a year. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z The clever man secures plausibility by rather cheekily dedicating the book to "Frederick Soddy's interpretation of radium," to which this story "owes long passages." The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z But one reason radium is dangerous is that, as a glance at the periodic table will show, it is chemically similar to calcium, a principal ingredient of bone. Treating prostate cancer: The men?s room 2012-03-08T16:00:34Z Hence, when it became noised abroad that there were strange apparatus in the college, such things as microscopes, X-rays, radium, and electrical appliances, the excited mob held up its hands in holy horror. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z Traces of radium have been detected in many rocks and soils, and even in sea water. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z Holes No. 14 and 15 were a former Superfund site once occupied by a company that used radium and mercury to manufacture components for fighter planes. Now That the Factories Are Closed, It?s Tee Time in Benton Harbor, Mich. 2011-12-15T17:00:08Z In her work, she established the nature of radiation and beta rays, and discovered and isolated polonium and radium. Scientific American Defends Marie Curie and Women Scientists in 1911 2011-12-06T19:15:11.590Z I was shown the page from her notebook from the day she discovered radium, and they held a Geiger counter up to it and it started clicking. Marie Curie, Theater, and Science Communication: An Interview with Alan Alda 2011-12-01T16:45:00.263Z Everyone has heard of radium, and knows that it is in a state which can best be described as a long-drawn-out explosion. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z Curie has published a great many independent papers, and a volume, “Investigations of Radio-active Substances,”; in which the results of their co-operative researches, including the epoch-making discovery of radium, are set forth. Marie Sklodowska Curie 2011-10-28T13:45:02.217Z If appeal is taken to radioactivity and the breaking up of uranium into radium and helium, conditions can be postulated which will give the required amount of energy. Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes 2011-10-28T02:00:24.840Z It continues to give out heat at such a rate that a pound of radium will melt a pound of ice every hour. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z And turning water into wine is not more wonderful than turning radium into helium, and helium into lead, which nature is now doing before our eyes. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z He could not count all the atoms shot off, so he put the piece of radium at one end of a tube and an electrometer at the other. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z And together they gained the undying trophies of fame, when, with the isolation of radium salts, the name of Curie suddenly rose to international renown. Marie Sklodowska Curie 2011-10-28T13:45:02.217Z Recent researches in radio-activity, to which reference has already been made, have indicated another possible source of the internal heat in the presence of radium in the rocks of the crust. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z If this heat could be used in running an engine, a hundred pounds of radium would run a one-horse-power engine without stopping for many hundred years. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z Her movements were astonishingly light and quick, and when I amused an idle moment in trying to fit her with a formula I decided that her veins must be filled with radium. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z Those splashes were caused by a tiny speck of radium in the middle of the tube, the helium atoms from which, by bombarding the inner surface of the tube, produced the sparks. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z They sent the police who arrested Handl after discovering the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his apartment in southern Sweden, according to The Daily Telegraph. Man Building Nuclear Reactor in Kitchen Arrested 2011-08-04T18:28:15Z Inside this external crust containing radio-active substances, it is supposed, as already stated, that the nucleus consists of some totally different matter containing little or no radium. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The power of Niagara might be replaced by the power of radium if an engine that could use this power were invented. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z After the incident, which he tagged "The Meltdown" on his blog, he said he "cleaned up the mess on the cooker and then I bought some more radium and continued the experiment." Swede tried to build nuclear reactor in his kitchen 2011-08-04T14:44:14Z And since each of these atoms from radium is charged with electricity, each as it emerged operated the electrometer. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z Richard Handl was detained for unauthorised possession of nuclear material when police found quantities of radium, americium and uranium in his flat. AUDIO: Building a nuclear reactor in my kitchen 2011-08-04T12:18:35Z In speaking of the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, Professor Virchow said that he had often felt that our investigators had not taken sufficient notice of the force of animal electricity. Every Man His Own University 2011-08-04T02:00:22.623Z One of the most interesting and the best known of these is radium. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z Memorable phrases, unexpected terms of expression, like flashes of radium, gleam in every chapter. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Mr. Spencer had a radium mind which gave forth, of its own spontaneity, light and heat. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z The devil, here, is in the details: from other experiments, it was known that the intensity of radioactivity from radium drops by half after traveling through 80 meters of air. Paris: City of Light and Cosmic Rays 2011-07-04T14:15:00.943Z Actinium, one of the radioactive substances, is said to have a chemical activity which is about a thousand million times swifter than that of radium. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z As for the outcome of present researches into the properties of radium, polonium, and similar substances, and their possible applications, it is too early to form even a surmise. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z The discovery of radium is within the memory of all. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z When radium was discovered, though it came so soon after the discovery of the X-ray and our disappointment with it, the old story of another pseudo-scientific medical application was told. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z A ton of pitchblende carries about 15½ grains of radium and it is very difficult to extract. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z A curie is the amount of radiation given off by one gram of radium and, in any nuclear material, is equal to the disintegration of 37 billion atoms per second. Drumbeat of Nuclear Fallout Fear Doesn?t Resound With Experts 2011-05-02T21:13:55Z At one time it was psychic force, then Roentgen or X-rays; lately it has been attributed to the mysterious effects of radium! The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z In his sudden flight he passed some newly formed helium atoms, which contained many of those electrons who had been his co-partners in the former radium atom. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z Then, besides radium, we had brought home to us the whole class of radio-active substances, and their possibilities. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z But he had the idea of X-rays only partially digested when science came on him with the cathode rays and crowned the confusion by discovering radium. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z It was self-confidence that enabled Madame Marie Curie, penniless and obscure, to discover radium, the greatest and most wonderful metal in the world. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z There is absolutely no ground for the popular and gratuitous surmise that radium emits energy without loss or waste of any kind, and that it is competent to go on forever. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z It is a continual bombardment that is proceeding in radium. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z For a time it looked as though radium might accomplish all that had been promised for the X-ray, though that promise had been so lamentably broken. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z There is only about one pound of radium in the world. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Hall shut it off, glanced at the radium dial, and got out of bed. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z More recently it has been suggested that the ancients may have been acquainted with some form of radioactive matter like radium, and that this was the secret of the lamps in question. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z Three different kinds of radiation were found to be emitted by radium. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z This would seem amusingly childish to us were it not for the fact that in radium we, too, seem to have discovered a philosopher's stone—a substance that transmutes elements. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Thus there may be an electric law yet undiscovered by which a substance like radium may draw electric energy from the air and keep its force and bulk unimpaired for many months, or perpetually. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Millikan's charge carriers were minute oil drops, which were given elementary charges by means of ionizing rays from radium. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z It might be possible—locked within the element radium that secret lies. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The electron tells the interesting story of these rays, and relates the experiences of some fellow-electrons who escaped from within a radium atom. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z It also contacted 25 wastewater plants, requesting that those with older permits “voluntarily” begin testing for radium, uranium and other pollutants. Pennsylvania Calls for More Water Tests 2011-04-08T03:27:34Z But radium raises many other questions affecting the nature of light and heat, such as how such great heat and light can be condensed into so small a compass and evolved with such wonderful power. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z As is very generally known, it is in the case of a particular element, radium, that this phenomenon occurs. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z The human mind had not to await the discovery of radium in order to prove the existence of God. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Then it was said that radium disproved much of man's scientific knowledge, but instead of that being so, we electrons have greatly extended man's knowledge by our radio-active actions. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z Radioactive elements like radium may also settle and concentrate in the sludge, which is sometimes sold by treatment plants for use as fertilizer. Pennsylvania Calls for More Water Tests 2011-04-08T03:27:34Z The recent discovery of radium seems to overturn the rock-ribbed scientific theory of the conservation of energy, and raises many new questions in regard to the nature of light and heat. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z That substance, wherever it occurs, is undergoing a continual process of disintegration; radium atoms are continually breaking up into more elementary bodies. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Mounted inside was a bit of radium bombarding a scintillating screen. Week in Review: Radiation?s Enduring Afterglow 2011-03-26T18:00:08Z Here, in radium, man could see atoms going to pieces. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z The list of contaminants does not include radium, according to a 1999 report by Pennsylvania State University. Pennsylvania Calls for More Water Tests 2011-04-08T03:27:34Z The scientists may soon be forced by radium and other natural phenomena to accept the electric theory—that electricity and not gravity is the one and only fundamental force in nature. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Were it not for the fact that radium itself is the product of the disintegration of another element, it would be impossible to account for its survival. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z As more bona fide uses led to a medical revolution — X-rays for medical imaging, radium for killing rapidly dividing cancer cells — hints of danger gradually accumulated. Week in Review: Radiation?s Enduring Afterglow 2011-03-26T18:00:08Z I have questioned a fellow-electron who escaped from a radium atom as to what upset their equilibrium, but I find that he does not know, or he pretends not to know. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z The water came from two gas wells in Tioga County and contained radium at almost 700 times the levels allowed in drinking water. Gas Drillers Recycle Wastewater, but Risks Remain 2011-03-01T20:25:47Z Most of the tests measured drilling wastewater for radium or for “gross alpha” radiation, which typically comes from radium, uranium and other elements. Drilling Down: Regulation Lax as Gas Wells? Tainted Water Hits Rivers 2011-02-26T22:41:29Z Electrons.—The particles into which the radium atom disintegrates are known as electrons. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z The gum-drop filled with cotton loses its charm when you contrast it with Consolidated Radium containing one part of radium and ninety-nine parts of water. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z Man observed these rays proceeding from radium, but, not knowing the cause of them, he called them gamma rays. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z As a contrast to such heart-searching thoughts the patient can wonder at the properties of that radium by which he may have been treated. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z Once radium enters a person’s body, by eating, drinking or breathing, it can cause cancer and other health problems, many federal studies show. Drilling Down: Regulation Lax as Gas Wells? Tainted Water Hits Rivers 2011-02-26T22:41:29Z The radium atom is infinitely more unstable than the atoms of the other elements; but it is possible to conceive of the disintegration of these also. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Even in pitchblende only one molecule in 109 seems to be of radium, renewable, however, when lost, by internal transformation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Indeed, some of my fellow-electrons, when escaping from radium, have produced rays sufficient to penetrate a six-inch boulder and affect a photographic plate lying beneath the boulder. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z Quartz pendulums are subject to the influence of electrostatic charge, and provision is made to counteract this through the presence of a radium salt in the case. Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966 2011-01-22T03:00:16.753Z It also used estimates of radium levels far below those found in Pennsylvania’s drilling waste, according to the study’s lead author, Anne F. Meinhold, an environmental risk expert now at NASA. Drilling Down: Regulation Lax as Gas Wells? Tainted Water Hits Rivers 2011-02-26T22:41:29Z "Just a common, ordinary pin," he said, "no radium about that." The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z In radium we have the very remarkable phenomenon of far higher concentration occurring naturally in very minute permanent amounts, so that merely chemical sifting is needed to produce its aggregation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z In other words, this material radium was actually going to pieces. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z We know now that radium, or at least radio-active substances, represent the philosopher's stone of the olden time. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z The Times found wastewater containing radium levels that were hundreds of times this standard. Drilling Down: Regulation Lax as Gas Wells? Tainted Water Hits Rivers 2011-02-26T22:41:29Z The idea of its being made of radium is ridiculous. The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z The slow degradation of radium has been found by the latter to be concomitant with an evolution of heat, in amount enormous compared with other chemical changes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z For instance, there is no doubt that the rays and the emanation of radium exercise a power over the life of plants, a power similar to that caused by the passage of an electric current. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z But the reverse was the case in the discovery of that extraordinary and uncanny element, radium. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Formally, it is to mark the 100th anniversary of Marie Curie receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for her discovery of radium and polonium. Chemistry's understated majesty 2011-01-05T18:20:00.977Z Radon is a colorless, odorless, naturally occurring radioactive gas, the result of the decay of radium in the soils. Homefix: Keep an eye on radon levels 2010-09-27T19:23:00Z The wonderful substance radium, whose Transmutation of elements. existence has made us to revise quite a number of old and established views, seems to be a fulfilment of the old problem of the alchemists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z But plainly radioactive bodies like radium possess more definite properties. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z With the announcement of the discovery of radium, the Curies sprang into world-wide fame, and the name of the wonderful woman who had been the prime mover in the supreme achievement was on every lip. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z He wore only a paper mask while handling tanks that, unknown to him, were filled with uranium and radium to be used in the production of nuclear weapons. Workers exposed to radiation may soon benefit from fund 2010-08-08T19:56:00Z The other six were “the aeroplane, wireless, radium, the locomotive, human grafting and the dynamo.” First Mention: A Diphtheria Cure, 1894 2010-05-10T22:06:00Z The first work proving that if you intake radium your bones are radioactive for many years after you're dead — they did that. CSI: Jazz Age New York 2010-02-24T08:15:00Z Maguennoc's case was more serious, because he held the particle of radium in his hand. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z At a recent scientific congress, held in Brussels, it was decided to prepare a standard of measurement of radium emanations. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z She was treated with radium at Johns Hopkins, the standard of care in that day, but there was no stopping the cancer. 2010-02-02T05:25:00Z He has shown apparently that lithium, when acted upon by radium emanations, changes to some extent to copper. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time Butler Burke of Cambridge has also made a series of experiments with radium and barium salts analogous to those of Dubois. The Mechanism of Life But," Stéphane objected, "radium is contained in rocks only in the form of infinitesimal particles. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z Curie, in an article which she wrote shortly after her discovery of radium, shows that she possesses a genius for inductive science of the highest type. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z The only event that provoked a similar emotion was the discovery of radium more than two centuries later. History of Phosphorus Observations made with regard to radium have revolutionized all the scientific thinking in this matter. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time I believe he claims to have a sure cure for cancer, by the use of radium and such means. The Social Gangster But it evidently contains radium in appreciable quantities. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z This statement is well illustrated by the delicate experiments that were required to isolate such rare elements as radium, polonium, helium and neon, which occur only in infinitesimal quantities. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Yes, when I looks back on them radium nights entertainments along with Bull Durham, I see now what a success they was in learning me to ride. A Man in the Open No doubt there are in nature changes of one sort of matter into another, for example, radium into helium. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Could there be, I wondered, an X-ray outfit or perhaps radium concealed about the living rooms of the house? The Social Gangster Nature has not pledged herself to be always niggardly and invariably to dilute the radium. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z In continuous, swift flashes, like the luminous particles from radium, these thoughts showered from her mind, as she stood gazing down at him. Shadows of Flames A Novel They are in greater vogue than ever now that radium has been found to be one of the constituents. The Towns of Roman Britain Her activity was a moral radium never consumed by the expenditure of its energy; it was dynamic whether it effected little or much. Carnival But now we have great numbers of dishonest and fake radium cure establishments. The Social Gangster And it is this perhaps that most clearly reveals the presence and the power of radium in all this adventure. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z Sir William Crookes has, however, changed a pale yellow diamond to a bluish-green colour by keeping it embedded in radium bromide for eleven weeks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" They do not write about radium murders, or heroines clad in orchids and tiger skins. A Novelist on Novels A ripping watch, with radium figures you can see in the dark. The Brightener I've heard of cases," he ventured finally, "where X-rays and radium have caused cancerous growths. The Social Gangster When Henri Becquerel, the great physicist, kept a tube containing a salt of radium in his waistcoat-pocket, his skin became covered in a few days with suppurating ulcers. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z The calculated rate of production of helium in the series in equilibrium with one gram of radium is 158 cubic millimeters per year. A Brief Account of Radio-activity A half grain of it—a half grain of radium, ladies and gentlemen—enough to burn a hole through the divvle himself, if he lay long enough agin it.” Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories Pitchblende also occurs, and is mined for the extraction of radium. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" I suppose," went on O'Hanlon, "you know that in Europe the popular furore about radium and its applications appeared earlier than it did here. The Social Gangster Very well," said Stéphane, "but where did that particle of pure radium come from? The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z Thus grease from stopcocks of apparatus used with radium or paraffin will give off carbon dioxide. A Brief Account of Radio-activity But in the Rings, all this incalculable wealth of uranium, radium, osmium, and so forth, not to mention millions of tons of useless gold, was uniquely exposed as easily accessible dust. Big Pill And finally he came to something that made his face glow like a radium dial. The Old Die Rich "Dr. Goode thought that the cancers might have been caused artificially by X-rays or radium," I ventured. The Social Gangster The girl in pink radium silk was Angelica. Side-stepping with Shorty As the emission is continuous, one gram of radium would therefore emit about 1,180,000 gram calories in the course of a year. A Brief Account of Radio-activity By bombarding nitrogen nuclei with alpha particles from radium, he found that nitrogen was changed into oxygen. A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis Maybe a radium needle in a lead shield. The Egyptian Cat Mystery The little instrument used a principle dating back to the early history of atomic energy, when scientists were exploring the nature of the strange force the Curies had discovered in radium and polonium. The Blue Ghost Mystery And then, all of a sudden, we fetches up alongside a fairy in radium silk and lace, with her hair waved to the minute, and carryin' enough sparks to light up the subway. Side-stepping with Shorty To the new body thus found the name of radium was given. A Brief Account of Radio-activity Radioactive elements: alpha particles from a speck of radium leave tracks on a photographic emulsion. A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis Have faith in the working out of the destiny of the race; be ready to accept the unaccustomed, to use the radium of social progress to cure the ulcers of the old friction. Euthenics, the science of controllable environment a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency Also, I would imagine that it wouldn't be safe to handle a chunk of radium like the characters in the story did; it's liable to burn. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 The second discovery, associated with the Curies, is that of the peculiar properties exhibited by the impure substance, and due to a constituent named radium. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" In one ton of pitchblende about 0.2 gram of radium is present; this is about 5000 times greater than the amount of polonium present. A Brief Account of Radio-activity It is well known that Pierre and Marie Curie used this new-found radioactivity to identify the new elements polonium and radium. A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis He hadn't tried yet for any of the radioactives except radium. Anything You Can Do! Imagine being four miles inside of the earth exposed to radium "ore"! Astounding Stories, July, 1931 It is true that an examination of the sun's spectrum has not, as yet, revealed any radium lines, but it is well known that helium, a transformation product of radium, is present in it. God and the World A Survey of Thought The radium found is relatively enormously more active than the pitchblende or uranium. A Brief Account of Radio-activity It was milky white 379 and perfumed as the geyser flow had been, and it seemed luminous as with a radium fire. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 In the field of surgery the X-ray is in daily use, and radium and radioactivity may yet be great aids to medicine. History of Human Society If I remember my science right, ultra-violet light would make the radium on the dial glow; and the lead in the tin-foil of the tobacco wrapping would screen it off. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 It has been said that there is energy enough in fifteen grains of radium, if it could all be set free at once, to blow the whole British Navy a mile high into the air. God and the World A Survey of Thought Of course, the removal of the board and the use of more concentrated preparations of radium would give quicker and better results. A Brief Account of Radio-activity Perhaps the rays were cast off from some other element even less understood than mysterious radium. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 Madame Curie, co-discoverer of radium, said to be the greatest living woman of this type, is world-famous and has done humanity a noble service. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types The next minute he would be seeing things, and then getting messages, and then looking through mountains with radium. Shadow Mountain The appearance of radium robbed this argument of its cogency. God and the World A Survey of Thought A zinc sulphide screen is fixed in one end of a small tube and a plate carrying a trace of radium is placed very close to it. A Brief Account of Radio-activity And the heavy, gray powder with its admixture of radium that transformed it to super-detonite—this must be carefully charged into the magazines of the generators. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 A good exposition of the known properties of radium, marred, however, by an attempt to put in accord science and religion—� propos du radium! A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science Then he would say that he and Professor Guinness are still partners—and the radium ore will belong to him. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 I had counted the miles on this particular trip because of the load of radium we were carrying from the Venusian mines. Larson's Luck The first investigations of the activity of uranium and thorium showed no loss of intensity at the end of several years, and radium also seemed to show no decrease in its enormous activity. A Brief Account of Radio-activity They seemed of radioactive origin, yet in many ways they were unlike any radium burns that Dixon had ever seen. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 It is fitted with a lens focused upon a bit of Sidot's blende and radium nitrate, and in a dark room shows these beautiful scintillations "like a shower of stars." A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science It was relieved by Professor Guinness's picking up the chunk of radium ore his former partner had hewn from the cavern's wall. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 It's no gag," he murmured calmly, "we happen to need the radium you're carrying. Larson's Luck Similar phenomena were observed when radium was substituted for thorium. A Brief Account of Radio-activity "He must be using a ray of some sort, possibly a radium emanation," he muttered to himself. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 In July of 1903 Sir William Ramsay and Mr. Soddy, in making some experiments with radium, saw produced, apparently from radium emanations, another quite different and distinct substance, the element helium. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science The earth-borer had been designed not so much for scientific investigation as the specific purpose of reaching a rich store of radium ore buried four miles below the Guinness desert camp. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 It was the only way to save Lucky and the radium. Larson's Luck Further, it became clear from the investigation of uranium minerals that radium, polonium, actinium, and ionium originated from uranium. A Brief Account of Radio-activity No, it's absolutely safe now, and will be safe until this stud is turned, releasing the activating gas from one compartment to mingle with the radium compound in the other section. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 This suggests the idea that in a similar manner radium may keep its temperature higher than the surrounding air by the absorption of other radiations as yet unknown. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science Many geologists and mining engineers knew that the radium was there, for their instruments had proven it often; but no one up to then knew how to get to it. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 I remember thinking fleetingly of crooks, Lucky Larson and a mountain of radium and then—because nothing made sense—I passed out again. Larson's Luck From thorium minerals a body was separated called mesothorium, which was analogous to radium. A Brief Account of Radio-activity Had there really glowed a small blue spark up there beside the green moon—a spark marking the mighty explosion of the radium bomb against the Centaurians' space ship? Astounding Stories, May, 1931 It may be asked, how can this statement be reconciled with the fact that thorium and radium keep up their activity without any appreciable falling off with time. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science "We ought to be close to that radium, now," he said. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 "It was taking us to our deaths in the radium mines—but we will pay whatever you ask." The Helpful Hand of God Both thorium and radium were found to give off a radio-active gas. A Brief Account of Radio-activity The radium atom, we find, lasts some seventeen hundred years, or a trifle longer. Carmen Ariza On this basis a gram of radium in a year emits enough energy to dissociate about two hundred and twenty-five grams of water. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science Of course we always knew the radium was here, but this is the proof. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 Only by the glow of radium paint, which commanded fabulous prices, could official business be transacted, and that only to a very small degree. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 In some cases the chemical action was determined and these new bodies were found analogous to well-known elements, as radium to barium, polonium to bismuth. A Brief Account of Radio-activity In the spot where the radium death shack had been, was a pulpy mass of livid, smoky light. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 In a short time, however, the two Curies made the great discovery of the element radium—a substance which, according to their estimate, is some one million eight hundred thousand times more radioactive than uranium. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science For in our midst were unscrupulous brigands, masquerading as harmless passengers, intent on seizing the secret treasure of radium ore Johnny Grantline of the Grantline Expedition had dug from the Moon. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 They ran luminously here and there, forming no particular pattern, much like the figures on the radium dial of a watch when first they come into wavering visibility at night. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 One gram of radium has been settled upon as the standard for that series and a unit known as the "curie" has been adopted to express the equilibrium quantity of radium emanation. A Brief Account of Radio-activity It usually occurs with silver, that is, the uranium mother ore does, through the disintegration of which radium is formed. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 The name for this element, radium, was proposed by Madame Curie, who had also suggested the term "radio-activity." A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science The spectroscope shows plenty of metals, including heavy radium deposits. The Planetoid of Peril Here they visited a huge workshop or laboratory; there a mine where radium or cobalt or platinum was being wrested from the vitals of the unwilling earth. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 When this amount has been produced by one gram of radium, the formation and decay will exactly balance one another. A Brief Account of Radio-activity The content of radium per ton in this ore proved unbelievably rich: we were delighted. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 While the rays given out by radium cannot, of course, be seen by the unaided eye, the effects of these rays upon certain substances, which they cause to phosphoresce, are strikingly shown. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science A semi-government trust, which controlled virtually the entire Earth supply of radium. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 He walked over to the integrating machine, which as early as the year 2031 had begun to replace the older atomic processes, due to the shortage of the radium series metals. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 A large quantity of radium emanation was compressed into a fine glass tube A, about 1.5 cm. long. A Brief Account of Radio-activity Those great monsters who have been developed throughout the ages by the action of the radium rays on their bodies, causing them to grow so prodigiously, are but incidents. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Whenever the tube of radium was drawn away more than two or three feet the phosphoresce ceased; whenever it was placed under the tureen the diamond immediately phosphoresced again. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science A new type of ore, as rich in radium as our gold-bearing sands are rich in gold. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 Beneath the dome were the radium apparatus that emitted the rays by which the satellite was photographed cinematographically, and the gyroscope steering apparatus by which the ship's course was directed. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 In this class are now placed also the three radio-active gases, emanating respectively from radium, thorium, and actinium. A Brief Account of Radio-activity "I will show you the laboratory, so that you can understand better the effects of radium on growth." Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 A particle of radium free from impurities should, therefore, according to the conventional conception of an element, remain unchanged and unchangeable. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science A lode of the pure radium is there somewhere, without doubt.” Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 I need not say that all are in gold; but a few special sets in radium can be obtained. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 These are generally known as radium emanation, thorium emanation, and actinium emanation. A Brief Account of Radio-activity "See, the radium kills those who get too close," said Professor Gurlone, in a hushed voice. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 The helium compound in its breaking up must give rise to the peculiar radiations and also pass through the successive radio-active change observed in radium.... A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science A large Martian Company has recently developed a radium engine to compete with our Earth motor. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 “He’s got a lead armored room where he keeps a bit of radium.” The Mind Master Properties of Radium A study of the properties of radium will aid in throwing light upon the question as to the building up of the atom. A Brief Account of Radio-activity You see, the ore in the mine contains radium, that is, salts of radium. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 On the other hand, radium, as far as it has been examined, has fulfilled every test required of an element. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science You know that there is very little radium available on Mars, and our government will not allow our own radium supply to be exported. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 A hundred and ten millions in the gross as it now stood, with twenty millions to be deducted by the Federated Refiners for reducing it to the standard purity of commercial radium. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 Metallic radium has been prepared by a method similar to that used in the preparation of barium. A Brief Account of Radio-activity They had heard of radium paint which shone in the dark on the dials of watches and clothes, but of the properties of the metal and its salts they were utterly ignorant. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Thus a particle of radium is giving out heat incessantly in sufficient quantity to raise its own weight of water to the boiling-point in an hour. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science But if Martian brigands had a supply of radium––I don’t imagine where it came from would make much difference. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 "Every man here voted that, above everything, what we wanted was to get the radium." Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 The radiations from radium produce marked chemical effects in a number of substances. A Brief Account of Radio-activity "Is this radium worth as much as silver?" Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Several methods have been devised for testing the amount of heat given off by radium and its compounds, and for determining its actual rise in temperature above that of the surrounding atmosphere. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science An engine of a new type, using radium as its fuel. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 "But why, if you could pick me off the Earth, do you not draw the radium ores in the same way?" Raiders of the Universes If moist radium chloride or a salt of radium containing water of crystallization is sealed in a glass tube, the gradual accumulation of hydrogen and oxygen will burst the tube. A Brief Account of Radio-activity They must be protected from the direct rays of the radium, which is refined. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Radium is then introduced, whereupon the mercury in the tube gradually rises, falling again when the radium is removed. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science If it were not for your knowledge of radium ores––” “Is this to be a personal wrangle?” Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 "Tell your Earth that I want the entire supply of your radium ores mined and placed above ground according to the instructions I give, by seven of your days hence." Raiders of the Universes A small amount of a radium salt enclosed in a glass tube will cause a serious burn on flesh exposed to it. A Brief Account of Radio-activity We do not want the world to know too much of our vast store of radium. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 By careful tests it has been determined that a gram of radium emits about twenty-four hundred gram-calories in twenty-four hours. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science That is the mysterious radium which has enabled a single race to assail and hold its own against a group of powers whose territory and population are many times greater than its own. England and Germany Looting young worlds of the precious radium ores! Raiders of the Universes It was first observed that a radium compound maintained a temperature several degrees higher than that of the air around it. A Brief Account of Radio-activity "God help the peons," said Kenneth Gurlone. ow the horde of monsters swelled more and more; the bats and moths winged in mad frenzy about the open door of the radium shack. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Thus, if this explanation is correct, the temperature of the radium is maintained above that of surrounding substances by the bombardment of its own particles. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science The missile, in passing, had carried away the belt and part of the fabric of Tom's garment—carried away the capsule and the radium that energized it. Vulcan's Workshop And only enough superhydrogenerated radium to push us twenty million miles, Sep. Operation Earthworm This effect is unaltered at low temperatures, as has been tested by immersing a tube containing radium in liquid air. A Brief Account of Radio-activity He went from cage to cage as Professor Gurlone, rather in the manner of a man giving a lecture to students, pointed out animal after animal that had been treated by the radium. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 The substances uranium, thorium, polonium, radium, and their compounds are radioactive, radium being by far the most active. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science R�ntgen-rays and radium have descended from the sphere of miracles. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war It is radium we have to have to make the return trip. Operation Earthworm It should be stated that these measurements were made after the radium had reached an equilibrium with its products; that is, after waiting at least a month after its preparation. A Brief Account of Radio-activity Maget, his brain reeling, yet was beginning to grasp what radium did to one. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 But the importance of this discovery was soon completely overshadowed by the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, working with her husband, Professor Pierre Curie, at the �cole Polytechnique in Paris. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science It leaped into view on the radium coated screen. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Another managed to bring in a lengthy dissertation on radium! Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Let us repeat, therefore, that the total amount of energy pent up in a single atom of radium almost passes our powers of conception. A Brief Account of Radio-activity "If a man touched that radium," he asked, "what would happen to him?" Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 If a surface is coated with Sidot's blende and held near a piece of radium nitrate, the coated surface begins to glow. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science This ship is radium propelled, and the men and women are the slaves who work in the radium mines. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Incidentally, I have learned that this new element is far more radioactive than radium and possesses many curious properties. Spawn of the Comet Thus from uranium with an atomic weight of 238 to radium there is a loss of three alpha particles. A Brief Account of Radio-activity This, Professor Gurlone told him, was the effect of the radium rays. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Curie has done such wonderful work in chemistry, that the Academy of Paris has long debated whether she should not be made an academician for her discoveries in connection with polonium and radium. How Girls Can Help Their Country Blaine groaned as his friend called for the equivalent of a milligram of radium. The Copper-Clad World Since the discovery of radium it has, on the other hand, been suggested, and not unreasonably, that radio-active matter may possibly play an important part in keeping up the heat of the sun. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language Therefore, 12 must be subtracted from 238, leaving 226, which agrees closely with the atomic weight of radium as actually determined by the ordinary methods. A Brief Account of Radio-activity It is a pitchblende deposit, and it happens to be so rich in radium content that throughout the ages it has affected all the life in the cavern. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 The insertion of tubes of radium has a beneficial effect. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Tommy was there, fishing the radium capsule from the powdery residue in order that it might be used in exciting the next charge. The Copper-Clad World Sir William Ramsay, however, discovered it to be also a terrestrial element in 1895, and since then it has come into much prominence as one of the products given off by radium. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language Ionium expels an alpha particle and becomes radium, which is a bivalent element resembling barium belonging to the second group. A Brief Account of Radio-activity "That radium stuff is what makes the funny light in that mine, then?" asked Maget. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Benefit has followed the administration of arsenic and iodides, and the use of radium and X-rays. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Wireless telegraphy, radium, the discoveries of bacteriology, and not least the conquest of the air, have taken the edge off the sallies of the wit, and have verified the dreams of the prophet. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Diamonds of yellowish tint may be improved in color by the use of high-power radium. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Radium then expels an alpha particle and becomes the gas, radium emanation, which is an analogue of argon and belongs to the zero group. A Brief Account of Radio-activity The professor forgot himself in a lecture on the properties of radium. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 In inoperable cases benefit may follow the use of the X-rays, or of radium. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. They include silver, copper, manganese, uranium, and radium deposits. The Economic Aspect of Geology Aside from the change in the color of diamond that may be brought about by means of radium, the mineral is extremely reluctant to alter its color. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public As the soil is formed by the decomposition of these rocks, radium is present in varying amounts in all kinds of soil. A Brief Account of Radio-activity The whole thing is no mystery after you learn it—not nearly so much as radium, or radio, was. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Removal by operation is seldom practicable, but the introduction of a tube containing radium for several days has in some cases proved beneficial. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. During the latter part of the war it is estimated that over nine-tenths of the radium produced was used in luminous paints for the dials of watches and other instruments. The Economic Aspect of Geology It is interesting to note that the corundum gems undergo marked change in color under the influence of radium. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Presence in Air and Soil Waters As radium is transformed into the gaseous emanation, this will escape wherever the soil is not enclosed. A Brief Account of Radio-activity He stole my sample-case, which contained an ounce of radium chloride, and ran off with it. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 In our experience radium has proved less efficacious in cancer than in sarcoma. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Low-grade radium residues are used to some extent as fertilizers. The Economic Aspect of Geology The use of radium as a medical accessory has been known to them for a very long period, and they are able to prepare and utilise it without the slightest risk of any untoward results. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story This radium emanation is dissolved in the soil waters, wells, springs, and rivers, rendering them more or less radio-active, and sometimes the muddy deposit at the bottom of a spring shows decided radio-activity. A Brief Account of Radio-activity |
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