Abbe managed to obtain 150 mg of radium salts from the Curies in 1903, before the cost and demand for the element skyrocketed (ultimately depriving Curie herself of a ready supply).

As every municipality learns and adjusts to maintaining government operations during COVID-19 outbreak measures, the Town of Monument Board of Trustees had its first virtual public meeting.

FLATOW: Mm-hmm. And so then people took radium and marketed it as snake oil and panaceas and things like that, right? Prof. REDNISS: Right. It was such a magical-seeming elixir.

Object Details Description This ampoule was removed from a display of objects (see 1993.0262.13) donated to the New York Academy of Medicine by Dr. Robert Abbe [b. April 13, 1851; d. March 7, 1928], a ...

Their plight was reminiscent of the so-called Radium Girls in the United States who contracted radiation poisoning around 1917 from licking their paint-brushes to sharpen them. In Chaville, traces ...

radium | Stool - Benches from mmcité. Steel structure treated with zinc coating and powder coating. Seat made of wooden lamellas or HPL. Easily anchored onto ...

They may sound like a forgotten '80s new wave band, but the Radium Girls were actually young female employees who were hired in the early 20th century to paint watches with a special radium paint.

Her real name is Susan Smith, but most people know her by the name “Tuesday McGowan.” “That’s the name I go by,” said McGowan, creative director of design at Radium San Francisco. “In ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set a legal limit for the combined level of two forms of radium, known as radium-226 and radium-228, that are allowed in drinking water: 5 picocuries ...

Radium-223 is an alpha-particle–emitting radioisotope that acts by delivering cytotoxic alpha-particle radiation to sites of bone metastases. 5, 6 As a calcium mimetic, radium-223 targets bone, ...