It isn't used for anything anymore--they have better, safer isotopes to do the things radium was once used for.
Radium is not used in asphalt.
The first name was radium; some isotopes had in the past other names.
Radium is not used to produce energy.
Polonium is not used for the treatment of cancers. Radium is used to treat bone cancers.
Radium was used in the past as a radioactive source in the radiotherapy of some cancers.
Radium was discovered in 1898 !
Radium is used today to treat Cancer and other medical caused deseases. It is also used in watch hands and gauges in airplanes. Radium is RADIOACTIVE and is not something to mess with.
Ra stands for Radium on the periodic table. Radium is a radioactive element with atomic number 88 and is commonly used in medicine for some cancer treatments.
The atomic mass of the radium isotope 226Ra is 226,025 409 8(25).
Of course, many scientists worked with radium and polonium.
Radium is a very dangerous radioactive element.
Radium is not used as a component of luminescent paints from about 80 years !