The wonders of radium

It has been well said that a general idea of what radioactivity signifies is a necessary part of the education of every intelligent person, since “it is the one thing of paramou...

During the World War large quantities of radium were employed by the Allies for night compasses, luminous dials on airplanes, gun-sights, etc. In times of peace it is used on pe...

One of the important consequences of the discovery of radioactivity was to afford the scientist a means for solving the problem of the earth’s age. By “age of the earth” we mean...

When radium was discovered by Mme. Curie in 1898, the effect upon the scientific world was startling, not to say “catastrophic”--as one author wrote at the time--since its activ...

The action of radium on human tissues was unknown until 1896, when Prof. Henri Becquerel of Paris, having incautiously carried a lump of pitchblende in his pocket, discovered on...

In 1923, Dr. R. E. Loucks, president of the American Radium Society, announced that toxic goiter had been cured by radium. Exophthalmic goiter has been, in most cases, successfu...

The extraction process consists in eliminating the various substances in the ore until only the radium salts are left. But, in the case of carnotite, more than 900 different ope...