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    Radium bromide is the bromide salt of radium, with the formula RaBr2. It is produced during the process of separating radium from uranium ore. This inorganic...
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    barium analog. Radium bromide (RaBr2) is also a colorless, luminous compound. In water, it is more soluble than radium chloride. Like radium chloride, crystallization...
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    chloride. Radium chloride can also be prepared by heating radium bromide in a flow of dry hydrogen chloride gas. It can be produced by treating radium carbonate...
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    Barium bromide is a precursor to chemicals used in photography and to other bromides. Historically, barium bromide was used to purify radium in a process...
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    elements, he invented a beauty cream laden with thorium chloride and radium bromide. In order to start his own brand and as a marketing device, he associated...
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    quantities of radium (which had been discovered in 1898) were very valuable. The refinery could produce about 5 milligrammes of radium bromide from a ton...
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    Magnesium bromide are inorganic compounds with the chemical formula MgBr2(H2O)x, where x can range from 0 to 9. They are all white deliquescent solids...
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    Wales to produce radium compounds. 350 milligrams of radium bromide (RaBr2) and 150 kg of uranium were produced. The radium bromide was used for research...
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  • yellowish-grey. Although radium chloride and radium bromide are less soluble than the corresponding barium salts, radium nitrate is more soluble than barium nitrate...
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  • barium analog. Radium bromide (RaBr2) is also a colorless, luminous compound. In water, it is more soluble than radium chloride. Like radium chloride, crystallization...
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    Calcium bromide is the name for compounds with the chemical formula CaBr2(H2O)x. Individual compounds include the anhydrous material (x = 0), the hexahydrate...
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    is still actively practiced by some. Tho-Radia, a cream containing radium bromide, notable for its iconic advertising using the name of Dr. Alfred Curie...
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    knowledge of nuclear physics. Rutherford used alpha particles emitted by radium bromide to infer that J. J. Thomson's Plum pudding model of the atom was fundamentally...
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    by the radioactive emissions (mostly alpha radiation) of a sample of radium bromide, he spilled some of the sample, and, owing to its extreme rarity and...
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    extraction of radium from radium concentrates in 1940, under Walter Patrick Grove. Over the next four years over 500 kilograms of radium bromide was produced...
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  • 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...
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  • Pm2(SO4)3 Promethium(III) sulfide – Pm2S3 Radium bromide – RaBr2 Radium carbonate – RaCO3 Radium chloride – RaCl2 Radium fluoride – RaF2 Radon difluoride – RnF2...
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    South Terras mine (category Radium)
    Terras: a contract having been agreed to supply 7.5g of radium bromide for the London Radium Institute worth over £30,000. The institute began the treatment...
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    Strontium bromide is a chemical compound with a formula SrBr2. At room temperature it is a white, odourless, crystalline powder. Strontium bromide imparts...
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    Beryllium bromide is the chemical compound with the formula BeBr2. It is very hygroscopic and dissolves well in water. The Be2+ cation, which is relevant...
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    arriving in New York City in 1907. There she studied the effect of radium bromide on cancerous tumors in rats. Menten and two other scientists published...
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    the year radium was discovered, he also tested the use of radium in medicine in a self-experiment using an amount of 0.2 grams of radium bromide. Walkhoff...
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    While it is rather rare in the Earth's crust, the high solubility of the bromide ion (Br−) has caused its accumulation in the oceans. Commercially the element...
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    Radioactivity (1912). Soon after the delivery of his 1904 address, some radium bromide was made available to Bragg for experimentation. In December 1904 his...
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    William Crookes in 1905 by burying a colorless diamond in powdered radium bromide. After having been kept there for 16 months, the diamond became olive...
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  • RaBr2 radium bromide 10031–23–9 RaCO3 radium carbonate 7116–98–5 RaCl2 radium chloride 10025–66–8 RaF2 radium fluoride 20610–49–5 RaI2 radium iodide...
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  • for Otto Hönigschmid to determine the molecular mass of radium using 1.5 g of radium bromide. Victor Franz Hess was working on the absorption of gamma...
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    radium bromide, into the tumour below the clavicle. Turner, over the next few days, exposed the involved lymph nodes above the clavicle to radium bromide contained...
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    barium by using the bromides instead of the chlorides for the fractional crystallization. He produced large quantities of pure radium and polonium for commercial...
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  • the theft of a lethal load of radium bromide from his home laboratory; The lead-lined container, still holding the radium, was discovered the following...
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