*gloWinG iN The D@rK--
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Polonium was the first highly radioactive element to be isolated in pure form.It gave off so much radiation ,that it made the surrounding air glow,and the polonium itself became hot.
But Marie'swork had shown that polonium,though powerul,was not responsible for the rest of pitchplende's radioactivity.She continued her work and partly purified a substance that she thought contained another new element.This,she named it radium,after the latin word
radius,meaning "ray".
However,there was so little of it in the pitchblende that huge amounts of ore would be needed to prerare a tiny sample of radium.
--M@rIe Go rOuNd--
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