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...Like radium, the glass fragments and the steel gave off alpha rays (ionized helium atoms), beta rays (electrons) and gamma rays (natural X rays). The proportions of the rays varied with the material. The steel gave off the most gamma rays. Sometimes the radiation from a piece gave a sudden, brief spurt, much above its normal level...
...Carbon-13, a rare-as-radium substance that can now be produced in quantities, may shed new light on the mysteries of human metabolism. It may also provide clues to the cause & cure of cancer, diabetes, hardening of the arteries, other metabolic diseases. It is like ordinary carbon but has a greater atomic weight. Absorbed into the system, C13 can be easily identified by its added weight, and precisely traced-with an electrical instrument-through the entire process of metabolism. Doctors may thus learn how food and drugs behave when they meet disease germs, or cancer, inside the body...
...atom bomb was the creation of France's long-dead Henri Becquerel, who discovered radioactivity, and the Curies, who discovered radium. It was the creation of Albert Einstein, sitting quietly in an old sweater, keeping his speculative pencil always pointed close to the secrets of physics...
...close relative of uranium, thorium is another radioactive, heavy element (atomic number 90, atomic weight 232.12) that disintegrates into lower-weight elements and eventually becomes lead. Of the three standard radioactive progressions - uranium-radium, actinium and thorium-those of uranium and thorium are the most alike. According to the Smyth report, thorium was considered as a basic source of atomic power, but uranium was chosen instead...
...announced Eastman, it had had a bit of radium trouble some time ago. A batch of film had been spoiled by packing it in cardboard made partly of waste paper from a factory using radium paint. Since then, the company had tested all packing materials for radioactivity. For a long time no trouble showed up. But recently, a shipment of strawboard proved to have 1,000 radioactive specks per sheet. The batch of strawboard had been discarded. The company preferred to say no more...