 Discovery Information |
| Who:
Pierre
and
Marie Curie
|
| When: 1898 |
| Where: France |
|
| Name Origin |
| Latin: radius (ray). |
|
| Sources |
| Found in uranium ores at 1 part per 3 million parts uranium. |
|
| Uses |
| Used in treating cancer because of the gamma rays it gives off. |
|
| Notes |
| Radium is highly radioactive and its decay product, radon gas is also radioactive. Since radium is chemically similar to calcium, it has the potential to cause great harm by replacing it in the bone. |
| Radium is over a million times more reactive than an equivalent mass of Uranium. |
