Radium

Dow enables sustainable fresh water supply in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Al Bawaba; 12/27/2009; 740 words; ...naturally seeps back into the wells is contaminated with various naturally-occurring heavy metals and minerals underground, like Radium. When government health authorities started to notice an increase in water-related health concerns, they determined it to...

1898 Monday 26 December
The Independent - London; 12/26/2009; 224 words; Radium discovered Pierre and Marie Curie announced that they had discovered a new, highly radioactive element, which they called radium. In 1903 they shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work

Research from M. Taheri and colleagues provide new insights into radiological protection.
Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 12/25/2009; 578 words; ...precipitates collected on a filter. The micro-precipitates were prepared from environmental water samples by collection of radium with lead as Pb/RaSO4." "Several factors affect the Ra-226 precipitation on the filter and its recovery, in particular...

Algeta Announces First US Patient Randomized in ALSYMPCA Phase III Study at Tulane Cancer Center, New Orleans.(Clinical report)
Cancer Weekly; 12/22/2009; 1078 words; ...controlled trial that enrols patients with CRPC and symptomatic bone metastases who will be randomized to receive Alpharadin (radium-223 chloride) plus best standard of care or placebo plus best standard of care. Approximately 750 patients are expected...

E-coli and other problems.(mathematical modeling)
Australian Mathematics Teacher; 12/22/2009; 1303 words; ...1898, Marie Curie discovered radioactive radium which was then developed for useful medical...the number of grams [N.sub.t] of radium left out of an original ten grams is given...years? (b) What is the half-life of radium? You might like to use [e.sup...