The radiation is believed to be from radium paint used decades ago on aircraft instruments.
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Radon is a gas, a product of decaying radium and an emitter of particles.
The Port Radium find unleashed local exploration that quickly fueled a northern mineral gold rush, literally and figuratively.
Eldorado Gold Mines opened Port Radium in 1926 and accommodated the remoteness with the latest technology of the day.
Radium from wartime aircraft is thought to have been in landfill which was used when the foreshore was reclaimed.
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Now some scientists are giving radium, radon and other toxins a second look.
Byers, who drank a daily dose of two 2.2-ounce bottles of radium-laced water, which, he said, made him feel zippy.
The Radium Palace in the Czech Republic, built in 1912 and renovated in 1997, offers underwater massages in irradiated waters.
Uranium is so close to the water table such that by-products like radium and radon are already in the water.
Ironically, its active ingredient is radium, a substance more usually thought of as a cause of cancer than as a treatment.
"We have in the safe a lead lined container that contains some of the original radium that Madame Curie possessed, " says Jentsch.
Less than a century ago radium was called "liquid sunshine" and appeared as an ingredient in everything from toothpaste to hair tonic.
In 1898, radium was discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie and G.
The radiation at Dalgety Bay is believed to come from radium paint used decades ago on aircraft instruments which were then dumped in the area.
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They are believed to have come from radium paint used to illuminate the dials of World War II aircraft which were then dumped in the area.
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The law is supposed to apply to those foods which are contaminated with cesium and bananas get their radioactivity from potassium (and Brazil nuts from radium).
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And Ritchie, who held his first auction in Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia, in 1963, has been compounding gross auction sales at 15% annually for 20 years.
Madame Curie pioneered the concept of radiation through her work with radium, and brought it to the awareness of the scientific community, vividly describing its unique properties.
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But one reason radium is dangerous is that, as a glance at the periodic table will show, it is chemically similar to calcium, a principal ingredient of bone.
But a group of biologists led by Eivind Hovig of the Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo has managed to find a way to speed the process up, by linking together the vast quantities of disconnected biochemical information that have already been published.
Checking data collected at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island and the Federal Physical and Technical Institute in Germany, they came across something even more surprising: long-term observation of the decay rate of silicon-32 and radium-226 seemed to show a small seasonal variation.
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