France had been the pioneer in radium therapy, but it was not the only one. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
Tons of material have to be treated in order to extract radium from the ore. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture] Reference
In fact it takes 1,620 years before the activity of radium is reduced to a half. From Wordnik.com. [Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium] Reference
In the mixture of barium and radium chlorides the radium is present only in the proportion of about 3 parts per. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Actually, we gradually learned from experience that the radium is contained in the raw material in the proportion of. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture] Reference
At the same time, those involved in radium research came to consider themselves as a distinct disciplinary community. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
They proposed to involve him in radium research by using his laboratory either under his or Haitinger's directorship. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
The uranium and radium series can, in fact, be combined, for it seems to be proved that radium is a derivative of uranium. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture] Reference
On this view the radium is subject to a fierce and unceasing bombardment by its own particles and is heated by its own radiation. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Rutherford - Nobel Lecture] Reference
To separate the radium from the barium I have used a method of fractional crystallization of the chloride (the bromide can also be used). From Wordnik.com. [Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The market price of radium is at present 70 dollars for 1 mg, but I am sure that our academy would be willing to accept a lower price. 142. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
One of these persons must have placed an order through a confidential agent in London to purchase the radium from the English radium Corporation. From Wordnik.com. [Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3] Reference
Viewing the subject from this angle, it can be said that the task of isolating radium is the corner-stone of the edifice of the science of radioactivity. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The interest in radium for medical use was so great that radium preparations and apparatus to produce radioactive water quickly became commercially available in Vienna. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
If, as Boltwood suggested, metallic lead is the solid end-product of radioactive disintegration, the lead found in radium minerals acquires a new and extraordinary interest. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore W. Richards - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Consider for a moment the explanation of the changes in radium. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Rutherford - Nobel Lecture] Reference
A confidential agent in London to purchase the radium from the English. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Bullet] Reference
That to me had this sort of glow that reflected what Marie Curie called radium's spontaneous luminosity. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
59Exner and the Austrian physicists foresaw in radium research the emergence of an exciting scientific field. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
In chemical terms radium differs little from barium; the salts of these two elements are isomorphic, while those of radium are usually less soluble than the barium salts. From Wordnik.com. [Radium And The New Concepts In Chemistry: Nobel Lecture] Reference
They suggested the name 'radium' for the new element, and henceforth were identified with the discovery of radiation. From Wordnik.com. [Curie, Pierre] Reference
Some atoms that are more massive than lead, such as radium, transform by emitting an "alpha" (pronounced al'-fah) particle. From Wordnik.com. [Public Health Statement for Ionizing Radiation] Reference
She employed cyanotype printing because she wanted to capture, she writes, what Marie Curie called radium's 'spontaneous luminosity.'. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
However, by being able to handle a trafficking material such as radium, she was able to be evasive and to cross disciplinary boundaries to regain entry into science. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
The commonest form of the element, which in itself is very far from common, is what is known to chemistry as chloride of radium which is a combination of chlorin and radium. From Wordnik.com. [Marvels of Modern Science] Reference
It is an exhaustless supply of 'radium' from which the forces of your life may draw perpetual sustenance. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference
"Automatic radium repulsion rays," explained the professor. From Wordnik.com. [The Jameson Satellite] Reference
He hadn't yet tried for any of the radioactives except radium. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
I then painted upon it, in a solution of radium, the word 'radium.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
"They are using radium repellent rays to keep us from approaching," he informed. From Wordnik.com. [The Jameson Satellite] Reference
Van Diest was more concerned with details for the notation of the future radium company. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
This takes place, it must be remembered, without any perceptible diminution in the radium. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
"If you want that thiss radium company shall be floated you would haf the better chance if ----". From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
The radium electrons pass through the space which separates every molecule in a solid body from another. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
It exists all right but there is no radium there, not any within a thousand miles for aught I know to the contrary. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
The boys were told, in part, that a drug that might save her was a form of radium discovered by the town pharmacist. From Wordnik.com. [Special Issue: How Kids Grow The Good, The Bad And The Difference] Reference
They returned to the room of the spaceships, seeking one of the small, portable radio-amplifiers used for searching out radium. From Wordnik.com. [The Beast of Space] Reference
In this a zinc sulphide screen is fitted at the end of a short brass tube, with a speck of radium about a millimeter away from it. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
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