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Uploaded by on Jul 14, 2008

Radium is a famous element - but also very dangerous. All the elements at http://www.periodicvideos.com/

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  • Great videos! Just to point out, Pierre Curie died from a carriage accident in Paris in 1906 not from radiation.

  • NOooooooo! He better not cut his hair! It's so awesome! D:

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  • @BoatRepairMan But it might've been because of his weakness developed by handling radium that he stumbled out into the street and got ran over.

  • @mutley2209 it's a decay product of both Uranium a Thorium metals ,they're radioactive and decay in the environment, as is Radium itself. You find it in nearly every rock , soil, at very low levels. You also find it's decay product Radon in buildings in places like your attic. Radium can cause cancer and a few other things but these take years to develop ,everyone has tces of radium in them. To the naked eye it just looks like a white metal, also glows in the dark when mixed with phosphates

  • 0:54 prof ! you have huge hands !

    love your videos :)

  • this is really helping me in science

  • @mutley2209 : Radium exists in small quantities in uranium and thorium ores, as it is a decay product of these. I believe Curie first started to suspect the existence of some unknown radioactive material since her measurements showed that pitchblende(Uraninite) was more radioactive than the uranium could account for. With her husband she did a spectrum analysis on the remnant after extracting uranium, and discovered some, as of late 1898, unknown lines(indicating some unknown element(s))

  • Best vid from this guy, thus far imo.

  • or as we like to call them now down the pub - hot particles!

  • Forever more when I hear the word scientist the image of this man shall be associated with it. This is a good thing as I was searching for information on the element not some music. SCIENCE!

  • @Mr88kies it's not a man made element, it's natural, you can find it in uranium mines

  • @mutley2209 you cant get a man made element.

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