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Radium: treatment by radiotherapy of some cancers, luminescent paintings for dials, neutron source as Ra-Be, uses in research laboratory
Polonium: radioactive heat source, neutron source as Po-Be, devices to eliminate dust and static elecrtricity, neutron trigger in nuclear weapons, uses in research laboratory
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoPolonium applications:
- neutron source (polonium-beryllium source)
- in devices for the elimination of the static electricity
- in devices for the elimination of the dust
- initiator in nuclear weapons
- isotopic heat source
Radium has not today practical applications. In the past radium was used for neutron sources (Ra-Be), radiotherapy of cancers, luminescent paints, etc.
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∙ 14y agoradium is used in toothpaste, paint for numbers on watches, & cancer treatments.
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What were Marie Curie's main contributions?
Pioneer in the discovery of radioactivity.
How is radium used in prostrate cancer?
radium is helped with cancer by radium is helped with cancer by
Did radium help saves lives?
Today radium-226 is not used for radiotherapy.
What type of experiments did Marie curie conduct?
she made a new element. the element was radium. radium is used in matirials such as lipstick!!!!!!!! She found the isolation of poloniam and radium and used radium for x-rays which helped in a war.
What does radium have to do with cancer?
1. Radium was used in the past for the radiotherapy of some cancers. 2. But because radium is strongly radioactive uncontrolled irradiation or contamination with radium can lead to some cancers.
What led Marie curie to such conclusion?
she discovered radium and polium she married pierre curie born1867 dead1934
Who discovered polium?
Marie and Pierre Curie dicovered the element polium in 1898 along with the element radium, in a little wooden shack they used as a laboratory. The shack was drafty in the winter and extremely hot during the summer, yet the Curies spent hours upon hours there, deep in their research. Polium was named after Marie's home country Poland.
What were Marie Curie's main contributions?
Pioneer in the discovery of radioactivity.
Want did Marie curie do?
Marie Curie invented/discovered Radium and Polium. Radiam is Radioactivity wich is in exrays and stuff. Search it on google to find out more abbout it... i don't know much...
How is radium used in asphalt?
Radium is not used in asphalt.
How is radium used in prostrate cancer?
radium is helped with cancer by radium is helped with cancer by
Radium what is it used for?
It isn't used for anything anymore--they have better, safer isotopes to do the things radium was once used for.
Can you get power from the radioactive element radium?
Radium is not used to produce energy.
Did radium help saves lives?
Today radium-226 is not used for radiotherapy.
What cancers were treated by polonium and radium?
Polonium is not used for the treatment of cancers. Radium is used to treat bone cancers.
What does radium cure?
Radium was used in the past as a radioactive source in the radiotherapy of some cancers.
What was radium used for in the late 1800s through the early 1900s?
Radium was discovered in 1898 !
