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How is Marie Curie significant?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Marie Curie coined the term "radioactive" and she discovered two new elements, polonium and radium. She realised that radioactivity could be used to destroy cancerous tissue, after noting that her fingers burned while handling radioactive uranite, but healed afterwards, suggesting tissue could be destroyed, but was then replaced.

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