in ore of pitchblende
Radium was first discovered in an ore called pitchblende
Radium is an element itself. It was isolated by Marie Curie from Pitchblende, an ore of Uranium.
NAICS Code(s) 212291 (Uranium-Radium-Vanadium Ore Mining)
Separation and refining of radium and polonium from uranium ores by different chemical technology processes.
The first name was radium; some isotopes had in the past other names.
Radioactive yes, synthetic no. Radium is found in nature in very small trace amounts usually in uranium ore deposits.
The principal problem is simply that so much ore is required to provide small amounts of radium. About one ton of pitchblende yields about one seventh of a gram of radium.
Radium has no Latin name as it was unknown to the Romans. The name "Radium" is a synthetic Latin style name made up by its discover: Marie Curie.
The name is only radium, with the chemical symbol Ra.
The atomic number of radium is 88.
Radium was discovered in France by the Curies, in samples of ore from the Austrian Empire, in 1898.