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We have never stopped using radium. Many "trivial" uses and certain "inappropriate" medical uses were stopped decades ago. While many valid uses of radium have have stopped because better or safer materials (e.g. tritium, cobalt-60, caesium-137, promethium-147) have been found for those purposes, radium still has certain specialized medical and industrial uses where nothing else can yet take its place.

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