Canadian French Meaning of radium
radium
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Nearest Words of radium
- radish plant => Radis
- radish => Radis
- radious => Rayon
- radiothorium => radiothorium
- radiotherapy equipment => Équipements de radiothérapie
- radiotherapy => radiothérapie
- radiotherapist => Radiothérapeute
- radiotelephony => radiotéléphonie
- radiotelephonic => radiotéléphonique
- radiotelephone => Radiotéléphone
Definitions and Meaning of radium in English
radium (n)
an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores
radium (n.)
An intensely radioactive metallic element found (combined) in minute quantities in pitchblende, and various other uranium minerals. Symbol, Ra; atomic weight, 226.4. was discovered by M. and Mme. Curie, of Paris, who in 1902 separated compounds of it by a tedious process from pitchblende. Its compounds color flames carmine and give a characteristic spectrum. It resembles barium chemically. preparations are remarkable for maintaining themselves at a higher temperature than their surroundings, and for their radiations, which are of three kinds: alpha rays, beta rays, and gamma rays (see these terms). By reason of these rays they ionize gases, affect photographic plates, cause sores on the skin, and produce many other striking effects. Their degree of activity depends on the proportion of radium present, but not on its state of chemical combination or on external conditions.The radioactivity of radium is therefore an atomic property, and is explained as result from a disintegration of the atom. This breaking up occurs in at least seven stages; the successive main products have been studied and are called radium emanation or exradio, radium A, radium B, radium C, etc. (The emanation is a heavy gas, the later products are solids.) These products are regarded as unstable elements, each with an atomic weight a little lower than its
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radium
an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium oresAn intensely radioactive metallic element found (combined) in minute quan
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radish plant => Radis, radish => Radis, radious => Rayon, radiothorium => radiothorium, radiotherapy equipment => Équipements de radiothérapie,
