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Inorganic Chemicals > Elements > Metals, Heavy > Radium
Inorganic Chemicals > Metals > Metals, Heavy > Radium
Inorganic Chemicals > Isotopes > Radioisotopes > Elements, Radioactive > Radium
Inorganic Chemicals > Elements > Elements, Radioactive > Radium
Inorganic Chemicals > Elements > Metals, Alkaline Earth > Radium
Inorganic Chemicals > Metals > Metals, Alkaline Earth > Radium

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Radium  

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  • /ther ‌use: consider CURIETHERAPY see BRACHYTHERAPY

Scope note

  • A radioactive element of the alkaline earth series of metals. It has the atomic symbol Ra and atomic number 88. Radium is the product of the disintegration of URANIUM and is present in pitchblende and all ores containing uranium. It is used clinically as a source of beta and gamma-rays in radiotherapy, particularly BRACHYTHERAPY.

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