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...issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy...
...Radium, the most widely publicized of earth's 92 elements, is now being advertised for sale in the back pages of metallurgical journals. Reason: despite 40 years of hullabaloo, man has found very few uses...
...possibly 300 grams have been sold to U.S. hospitals and doctors. But few specialists are expert enough to use it effectively, few are the cases (less than 20%) in which it could be 100% effective no matter what their skill. Moreover, high-voltage X-rays have increasingly replaced radium for use on cancers located in parts of the body accessible to X-ray tubes. And the cyclotron has created a very serious rival, since other minerals can be made radioactive artificially...
Second biggest market for radium-to which advertising is now addressed-is only four or five years old. It is radiography, i.e., inspecting the insides of metals, weldings, castings, molds by taking photographs with radiation of smaller wave length than light's. The gamma rays which radium gives off can penetrate eleven inches of steel; X-rays can get through but six. (X-rays have until now dominated this field...
...Radium's third best market is the luminous paint industry, which is booming. A very little radium goes a long way: combined with zinc sulfide, one-thousandth of one gram (there are 28.35 grams in an ounce) can illumine thousands of needles on thousands of aircraft dials...