Word: radiumator
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...neutron source used at present is a radium-beryllium mixture. But radium is dangerous and gives off confusing gamma-rays of its own. Oilman Green, hoping to try some radioactive substance from Hanford, had reckoned without the brass hats...
Where radiobiology formerly had only one strongly active element-radium-to work with, it now has dozens. All will be far cheaper and more useful than radium...
...What radium and X rays now do for cancer, the synthetic radioactive substances will presumably do better. The chances are that no more radium will be refined, though the uranium mined with it has a new, spectacular market...
Since then he has been a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I, a chemist in the U.S. Bureau of Mines (where he helped develop a new way to extract radium), research director of both Standard Oil of Indiana and General Printing Ink Corporation, a professor at the University of Chicago, dean at Penn State, and Director of Science and Education for the New York World's Fair...
...citizen in nine. "Very rapid" progress against this mysterious scourge could be made if the problem got the same amount of money, brains and planning that was devoted to developing the atomic bomb. Atomic research may help solve the cancer problem; artificially radioactive substances have already been used as radium substitutes in treating the disease...