Radium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ra and atomic number 88. It is the sixth element in group 2 of the periodic table, also known as the alkaline...

The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint...

Radium dials are watch, clock and other instrument dials painted with luminous paint containing radium-226 to produce radioluminescence. Radium dials...

Radium jaw, or radium necrosis, is a historic occupational disease brought on by the ingestion and subsequent absorption of radium into the bones of radium...

Radium girl may refer to: The Radium Girls, female workers who painted glowing radium watch dials in the 1920s and suffered from radium jaw and death...

Radium Springs may refer to: Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia, a village in British Columbia Radium Hot Springs Airport Radium Springs, Georgia Radium...

research on radium. Mrs. William Brown Meloney, after interviewing Curie, created a Marie Curie Radium Fund and raised money to buy radium, publicising...

refer to: Radium, Colorado, United States Radium, Kansas, United States Radium, Minnesota, United States Radium, Virginia, United States Radium Hot Springs...

Radium-226 (226 Ra ) is the longest-lived isotope of radium, with a half-life of 1600 years. It is an intermediate product in the decay chain of uranium-238;...

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beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), and radium (Ra). The elements have very similar properties: they are all shiny, silvery-white...

isotope of radium is 226Ra with a half-life of 1600 years. 226Ra occurs in the decay chain of 238U (often referred to as the radium series). Radium has 34...

Radium, elevation 6,890 feet (2,100 m), is a small rural unincorporated community in southwestern Grand County, Colorado, United States. The community...

Radium Girls is a 2018 American drama film directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler and starring Joey King and Abby Quinn. Lily Tomlin and Jane...

Radium Hot Springs, informally and commonly called Radium is a village of 1,339 residents in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia. The village...

Radium silk was a commonly used name for a type of lightweight, lustrous silk primarily used in women's clothing and undergarments from the middle of the...

Port Radium is a mining area on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. It included the settlement of Cameron Bay as well...

Radium iodide is an inorganic compound of radium and iodine with the chemical formula RaI2. It is the radium salt of hydrogen iodide, consisting of radium...

The radium fad or radium craze of the early 20th century was an early form of radioactive quackery that resulted in widespread marketing of radium-infused...

Radium Springs is an unincorporated community located on the southeast outskirts of Albany in Dougherty County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the...

Radium oxide is an inorganic compound of radium and oxygen with the chemical formula RaO. The compound can be obtained by heating metallic radium in air:...

from jawbone cancer after consuming Radithor, a patent medicine made from radium salts dissolved in water. The son of industrialist Alexander Byers, Eben...

The radium ore Revigator was a pseudoscientific medical device consisting of a ceramic water crock lined with radioactive materials. It was patented in...

Radium chloride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula RaCl2. It is a radium salt of hydrogen chloride. It was the first radium compound isolated...

Radium iodate is an inorganic compound, a salt of radium and iodic acid with the chemical formula Ra(IO3)2. Radium iodate is obtained by the reaction of...

Radium nitride is an inorganic compound of radium and nitrogen with the chemical formula Ra3N2. The compound can be obtained by absorption of N2 by metallic...

Radon-222 (222Rn, Rn-222, historically radium emanation or radon) is the most stable isotope of radon, with a half-life of approximately 3.8 days. It is...

luminous paint containing radium, a natural radioisotope. Beginning in 1908, luminous paint containing a mixture of radium and copper-doped zinc sulfide...

Radiation was generally believed to have bactericidal properties, so when radium was discovered, in addition to treatments similar to those used with x-rays...

The Radium Prospector was a tugboat operated by the Northern Transportation Company's "Radium Line", on the tributaries of the Mackenzie River in Canada...