On 26 December 1898‚ they then discovered and announced the existence of another element‚ which they named "radium" due to its intense radioactivity. Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize in 1903 which she also shared with Becquerel and Pierre. Sadly on 19 April 1906 Pierre was walking across the Rue Dauphine and was struck by a horse-drawn
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The radium girls were women who painted radioactive paint on watch hands. As you can imagine‚ painting tiny watch hands was difficult‚ so‚ to keep their brushes thin‚ they would lick them getting radioactive paint on their lips and in their mouth. Later‚ they suffered from various health problems (those were radium watches‚ not the tritium watches used today. It was changed because‚ unlike tritium‚ radium decays into radon gas and is toxic to the bones)
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What does it mean to be a hero? A hero is a person who is admired or idealized for courage‚ outstanding achievements‚ or noble qualities like being courageous‚ honest‚ and determined. A hero would always make communities a better place‚ which makes people admire them. Heroes would devote their best power to assist everything. Today‚ we have heroes that are help to make the world a better place from the past to the future. Odysseus was a Greek hero from Homer’s Iliad‚ The Odyssey. In one hand‚ Odysseus
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It had radioactive properties. Radium‚ like x-rays‚ was adopted for many industrial uses. For example‚ workers in the 1910s and 1920s painted watch dials with radium so that it could be able to glow in the dark (Dixon). Currently‚ with the system of storing‚ the government just wants to have it be stored underground. It is starting to get overcrowded
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The Marcellus Shale formation is located in Pennsylvania‚ New York‚ Ohio and West Virginia. This land is very popular because of its tight‚ deep shale formations which have the potential to hold a lot of natural gas. The Marcellus Shale is large and covers a widespread amount of land area in the Northeastern United States. Researchers say that there is a potential for the Marcellus Shale formation to hold around 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in its shale deposits deep beneath the earth’s
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they appear‚ what should we do? To stop or to go on? Mrs. Curie told us the answer. We all know that Mrs. Curie discovered radium‚ but how many people really know how hard she worked? At that time‚ there were many people disapprove of Mrs. Curie. Although she got over hundreds of difficulties‚ she still believed in herself and never gave up. Finally‚ she succeeded to discover radium. She proved that she was right by her continuous hard work and her strong spirit. We should learn from Mrs. Curie. She
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pituitary tumor. Within that year he received “gamma knife” treatment‚ and then 10 years later ran a half-marathon with his wife to help fundraise money for the cancer center. When thinking about how far we’ve come from the older cancer treatments like radium or even believing that there is no treatment‚ to Eric Schuetz running a half marathon a decade after treatment is astonishing. Although we have not quite found a cure yet‚
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odorless‚ tasteless noble gas‚ occurring naturally as the decay product of uranium. Radon is a gas produced by the radioactive decay of the element radium. Radioactive decay is a natural‚ spontaneous process in which an atom of one element decays or breaks down to form another element by losing atomic particles (protons‚ neutrons‚ or electrons). When solid radium decays to form radon gas‚ it loses two protons and two neutrons. These two protons and two neutrons are called an alpha particle‚ which is a type
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1903‚ and following the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906‚ she took his place as Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences‚ the first time a woman had held this position. She was also appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris‚ founded in 1914. The importance of Curie’s work is reflected in the numerous awards she had earned on her. She received many honorary science‚ medicine and law degrees and honorary memberships of learned societies
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generate a high amount of electrical energy in one single plant. 3) This technology is readily available. Disadvantages 1) Uranium Waste- The chief danger lies with the mining waste; it contains radium‚ which is highly radioactive. Radon gas (one of the products that occur after radium undergoes radioactive decay) can expose workers and nearby and nearby communities to an array of health risks like lung cancer‚ bone cancer and lymphoma. 2) The energy source for nuclear energy is Uranium
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