Word: ruthenium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STRATEGIC STOCKPILE. This embraces 98 separate "strategic" materials, including many that have to be imported, going all the way down to ten troy ounces of precious ruthenium metal. Current value: $5.8 billion...
...them. Last week Ohio State University's Dr. William G. Myers reported that a seventh, I-125, shows promise as a convenient tracer to follow the metabolic pathways of ordinary iodine. But it has not yet been used in humans. An odd mother-daughter combination is ruthenium-rhodium 106. Long-lived ruthenium 106 gives birth to short-lived rhodium 106, which in turn gives off energetic beta rays. The pair had seemed promising to destroy acid-secreting glands in certain cases of peptic ulcer. But some centers reported they have already quit using it because of excessive danger...