PURE RADIUM AT LAST.
MADAME CURIE'S DISCOVERY. By Tdecrauh-Press Aesociation-Oopj-rieht. (Rec. September 7, 9.2S p.m.) ,- ... Paris, September 7.\ Madame Curie, the . .discoverer of radium, -, in collaboration with M. Debierne, has at last . obtained pure metallic radium. It.is a white metal, and oxydises rapidly in tho air. It ad-, heres firmly to and burns paper 'quickly. It decomposes in. water. Radium was discovered by M. and Madame Curie, working with M. Bemont, in 1898._ It was obtained -from pitchblende in . company, : with . fche 'metal baniun-Tand was for a-'time ■ known as ■active barium." , What was obtained was only an impure salt of raddum, and this could only,Be got by long and patient work,' many tons.of pitch-blonde yielding, after long and tedious :Work, a small fraction ■ of ■a' gramme.'■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 916, 8 September 1910, Page 7
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126PURE RADIUM AT LAST. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 916, 8 September 1910, Page 7
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