Word: radiumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green color imparted to diamonds by an hour of cyclotron bombardment with deuterons, heavy hydrogen ions, is very much like that characteristic of the occasional diamonds exposed to radium rays, Dr. Berman said...
...either the radium or cyclotron bombardment of the diamonds, Dr. Berman explained, a short lived radioactive form of carbon is produced, together perhaps with some gas, like helium. The theory is that such gas molecules could become tightly lodged in the microscopic crevices of the diamond structure, and could impart the green color through a scattering of light rays...
...about to die. When the tumors were removed, or the patients autopsied, the doctors calculated the amount of phosphorus absorbed by the cancerous tissue. They found that the chemical settled in the tumors, barely affected normal cells. Once in the tumors, the phosphorus acts like radium, burning out the rebel cells...
From Berlin came word that Nazis had permitted grave, shy Irène Joliot-Curie, Nobel Prizewinning daughter and image of the late, great Marie Curie, to return to the Paris Radium Institute, resume her experiments in artificial radioactivity...
...inventor as well as a famed surgeon, Dr. Young has spent many hours in the Institute's tool shop. He designed a modern cystoscope, a tubular instrument with a prism and electric light, used for examining the interior of the bladder. Other inventions: a combination cystoscope and radium applicator for treating tumors of the bladder; a special type of lithotrite, an instrument for crushing stones in the bladder...