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n. - A disintegration product of a soft silvery-white tetravalent metallic element

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  • On this occasion, we employed the energy-rich gamma radiation of a radiothorium preparation.
  • Hahn's radiothorium and actinium salts also followed him to Emil Fischer's laboratory in Berlin. 30
  • Here he discovered radioactinium and conducted investigations with Rutherford on alpha-rays of radiothorium and radioactinium.
  • His work here was rewarded by the discovery of a new radioactive substance, radiothorium, while working on the preparation of pure radium salts.
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