Radium
['reɪdɪəm] or ['redɪəm]
Definition
(noun.) an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A radiant radiator, redolent of ranging radial rays of radio-activity, raised to radical rates and regarded as a ruthless rake-off in the reign of riches within the arrayed radius of a raging, raving and raided race.
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Examples
- Radium, also discovered in thi s analysis of 1898, was associated with barium. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There is (according to Soddy) about on e part of radium in five million parts of the best pitchblende, but the new element is about one million times more radio active than uranium. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He was wonderful like a piece of radium to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In his mind was the decision to inspect the radium pumps, which would take about thirty minutes, and then return to my bed chamber and finish me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The element yields spontaneously radium emanation without any apparent diminution of its own mass. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The driver sits on top of this plane upon a seat constructed over the small, noiseless radium engine which propels it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Curie succeeded in obt aining the pure chloride of radium and in determinin g the atomic weight of the new element. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In 1899 Debierne discovered, also in the highly complex pit chblende, actinium, which has proved considerably less radioactive than radium. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- To reverse the process of the transformation and produce radium from the base metal lead would be an achievement greater than the vaunted transmutations of the alchemists. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Curie that the energy of one gram of radium would suffice to lift a weight of five hundred tons to a height of one mile. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I don't know any thing about radium, and I have lots of company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At his side hung a long-sword, a short-sword, a dagger, and one of the destructive radium revolvers that are common upon Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They have had me down in the pits below the buildings helping them mix their awful radium powder, and make their terrible projectiles. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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