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Does radon sink in water

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The density of radium (5,5 g/cm3) is greater than the density of water (1 g/cm3); radium react with water with violence.

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can radium sink or float in water????????????????
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If you had enough of it, as it is reckoned that only one ounce (28 grams) of it exists in the Earth's entire crust, it would sink.

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Uranium is very dense and sink in any liquid.
The density of uranium is 19,1 g/cm3.

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No, it does not float in water. Radium is much more denser than water and like other metals, it sinks in the water.

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No. Radon will bubble up though water.

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it sinks

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no i doesn't

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Radon doesn't react with water but it is soluble in water.


How do you Eliminate radon from drinking water?

Radon is an important problem for the atmosphere in the buildings not for the water. Radon from the water can be eliminated by boiling the water. Also because the most important isotope pf radon, 222Rn, has a half life of only 3,8235 days radon disappear after a period of time.


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