Word: radiumator
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...connection with the visit of Mune. Marie Curie to Boston, a collection of about sixty of the various radium minerals has been placed in cases 109 and 110 on the main exhibition floor of the Mineralogical Museum...
While it is emphatically stated by Professor Duane that neither X-rays nor radium should be considered a permanent cure for all kinds of cancer, it has long been known that radium has a marked alleviative effect upon this disease, and the University physicists have reason to believe that the effect of the new highly-penetrating X-rays will be equally beneficial...
...Harvard Cancer Commission is erecting a new building adjoining the Collis P. Huntington Hospital in Boston, where an X-ray plant will be installed as well as the Commission's radium plant. Confident that the life of cancer patients may thus be prolonged, life insurance companies of Boston have given over $30,000 toward the new building...
...varying character have resulted in the showing that at least two kinds of lead exist: one, the ordinary metal used in our pipes and otherwise industrially throughout the world; another, a form of lead, with lower atomic weight but otherwise precisely similar, produced apparently by the decomposition of uranium. Radium has been found by others to be one of the intermediate products, and it has come to be generally acknowledged that helium (discovered by Sir William Ramsey 23 years ago) is one of the final decomposition products of radium...
...these courses, but there is always a danger that such a course may be discovered by an enterprising undergraduate in search of something that he can pass. And such courses are not usually difficult to pass. As an example from another field one might cite the discovery of radium, which to the scientific man was a matter of profound significance affecting the whole fabric of physical science, but the newspaper reporter could in a brief time acquire sufficient knowledge of the subject to write an article that would pass...