Radium was seen as a miracle product, and even used in lipsticks: only later was it realised that it was highly dangerous - Illustration by Ricardo Rey For some children it’s dinosaurs, for others ...
Scientific discovery can be achingly slow, but it was moving swiftly in the 1890s. X-rays had been discovered in Germany just a few days before Christmas in 1895. Several months later, while ...
Dublin, May 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Metal Ore Mines (Iron, Gold, Silver, Copper, Nickle, Uranium and Radium), Mining (U.S.): Analytics, Extensive Financial Benchmarks, Metrics and Revenue ...
The UK is still dealing with the legacy of radium-painted dials used in World War II, with Dalgety Bay in Fife just one area affected by radium displaced from old waste dumps, writes Stephen Mansell.
A Manorville man charged in a plot to kill three Brookhaven officials by putting radium in their cars and lacing their toothpaste with radioactive metal pleaded guilty yesterday in exchange for a ...
Radium, the most widely publicized of earth’s 92 elements, is now being advertised for sale in the back pages of metallurgical journals. Reason: despite 40 years of hullabaloo, man has found very few ...