A radium atom and polyatomic molecule are held between the electrodes of an ion trap. Jayich’s team will use the radium molecule to search for time symmetry violation.

The ‘radium girls’ painted clock dials to make them glow in the dark. For some, the experience was fatal. Hundreds of women and girls were exposed to a radioactive chemical at an Illinois ...

Radium with everything. ... The radium bound to their bones like its chemical cousin, calcium, injuring, disfiguring and killing many of the 2,000 workers estimated to have been employed at peak.

There was a more personal reason to use Doramad radioactive toothpaste. As Mr. Dunthorne, a British novelist and poet, tells us in his memoir “Children of Radium,” his German-Jewish great ...

The radium level is half that of the first sample, but still slightly higher than the EPA limit. The water district says they've made treatment modifications at the facility, increasing a chemical ...

Modern radium extraction is a highly complex process, started with big ovens, ... Pochon graduated in chemical engineering at the School of Physics and Industrial Chemistry in Paris, ...

March 7, 1928], a surgeon and early proponent of radium therapy. The ampoule’s contents are described on the display as: "Ashes, with a small remnant of radium recovered from a fireplace after burning ...

Later, Dunthorne travels to the site of the Dersim massacre, where chemical weapons developed by Siegfried’s employer were used in a genocidal attack on Kurdish Turks in the late 1930s.

As Mr. Dunthorne, a British novelist and poet, tells us in his memoir “Children of Radium,” his German-Jewish great-grandfather, Siegfried Merzbacher, had created it.