Word: radiumator
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...quantity which emits the same number of particles per second as one milligram of pure radium element...
Upshot: California's atom smashers have thus far produced some 100 new isotopes* of atoms to add to the 450 previously known. Among them: two new forms of radium, and an iron isotope (atomic weight: 52) lighter than any iron ever before found. The physicists think that some of their new isotopes may be useful in medicine and research. But most of the isotopes, like the bombarded atom itself, are very unstable...
...Bikini really ties this business up in a knot. . . . Literally astronomical quantities of radioactive material had become intimately mixed with the sea water, mist and spray which accompanied the formation of the giant mushroom of water which rose from the lagoon. . . . [Such atomic mist] will deposit huge amounts of radium-equivalent -anywhere from a ton to 100 tons...
...Opener. For a common type of deafness-resulting from blocking of the inner end of the Eustachian tube by abnormal growth of lymphatic tissue-Dr. John E. Bordley of Johns Hopkins described a new treatment: radioactive bombardment. If done early, before the blocking tissue hardens, irradiation with radium opens the tube, restores normal hearing...
Died. Paul Langevin, 74, Nobel-Prize-winning French physicist, whose studies of sound waves gave a basis for modern methods of submarine depth sounding, onetime associate of radium discoverers Pierre & Marie Curie; in Paris...