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Port Radium
Port Radium mining village, N central Northwest Territories, Canada, on Great Bear Lake. The mines were discovered in 1930 and yielded deposits of pitchblende, from which much radium was produced. During World War II the mines were expropriated by the Canadian government when scientists found that these ores contained a rich store of uranium oxide, a source of atomic energy. They were exhausted and closed in 1960.
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RADIUM LEVELS POSE MINUTE HEALTH RISKS
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 3/9/1997; 676 words
; Radium levels in Fox Valley water wells could cause...developing a health problem from water-borne radium are very long. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined the radium content in water wells shouldn't exceed...
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RADIUM'S MIRACLES BECOME NIGHTMARE SHATTUCK NEIGHBORS MUST LIVE WITH LEGACY OF MILL THAT PROCESSED RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 11/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Byline: Deborah Frazier News Staff Writer Radium was America's miracle cure in the early...radioactive metal from tons of ore. Needles of radium inserted into the nose were thought to...glasses and water pitchers were coated with radium to improve health. Radium was injected...
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Radium in water could prove costly Water bills in 2 dozen state communities could skyrocket to meet rules
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 2/19/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...federal regulations limiting the amount of radium in drinking water. Residential water...version of a home softener, would remove radium in water pumped out of Waukesha's nine...from Lake Michigan, partly because of radium contamination. The U.S. Environmental...
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Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform: 1910-1935.(Review)
Magazine article from: Industrial and Labor Relations Review; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...study, female wage earners who applied radium-based luminous paint to dial instruments...complex ways in which the recognition of radium poisoning, measures to safeguard against...book begins by tracing the discovery of radium poisoning early in the 1920s by the dialpainters...
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RADIUM STANDARDS WILL APPLY [] NEW WATER ANALYSIS: CUSTOMERS COULD EXPECT HIGHER WATER BILLS TO PAY FOR TREATMENT
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 2/25/1998; 700+ words
; ...Valley towns plagued with trace amounts of radium in their water supplies had been hoping...Protection Agency would ease up a little on its radium limit, which now places them outside...minds because, they argue, the amount of radium in the water, though outside the federal...
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Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935
Magazine article from: Environmental History; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 191>...the point, causing them to ingest hazardous doses of radium in their daily work. What dialpainters also did with radium-paint their nails and teeth with it, decorate their...
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Radium reduction plan nets no takers
Newspaper article from: Maryland Gazette; 8/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...approved a program to help residents reduce radium levels in their drinking water, not a...000 to drill the well deeper than the radium in the ground. In an attempt to spread...Crownsville with wells that recorded high radium levels. It threw in an incentive: The...
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Radium testing goes to graves
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/27/1986; ; 700+ words
; ...years, Koenig worked with radioactive radium, which is now known to cause bone and...studying ways to reduce the cost of producing radium. At the time, scientists foresaw many...researchers have determined that large radium doses cause cancer, they still don...
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Radium in Wisconsin drinking water: an analysis of osteosarcoma risk.
Magazine article from: Archives of Environmental Health; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...studies have shown an association between exposure to high doses of radium and bone cancers? The exposures occurred among patients treated with radium for other cancers, and among radium-dial painters who adjusted the point on their brush with their...
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Radium court fight delayed
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/24/2001; ; 700+ words
; Radium court fight delayed City, EPA seek compromise...Agency to suspend their court battle over radium standards while the parties look for common...the agreement to postpone litigation over radium standards that could cost the city $50...
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Radium (revised)
Book article from: Chemical Elements: From Carbon to Krypton
RADIUM (REVISED) Note: This article, originally...in 2006 for the eBook edition. Overview Radium is a radioactive element in Group 2 (IIA...chemical elements are related to each other. Radium was discovered in 1898 by Marie Curie...
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radium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
radium [Lat. radius =ray], radioactive metallic...sp. gr. about 6.0; valence +2. Radium is a lustrous white radioactive metal...bromide. The most important property of radium and its compounds is their radioactivity...
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Radium
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
Radium melting point: 700°Cboiling point...5.00 g/cm3most common ions: Ra2+ Radium is the last of the alkaline earth metals...there are twenty-five known isotopes of radium (only four of which are found naturally...
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SIC 1094 Uranium-Radium-Vanadium Ores
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
SIC 1094URANIUM-RADIUM-VANADIUM ORES This category covers establishments...mining, milling, or otherwise preparing uranium, radium, or vanadium ores. NAICS Code(s) 212291 (Uranium-Radium-Vanadium Ore Mining) Industry Snapshot Domestic...
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Periodic Table of the Elements: Radium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Periodic Table of the Elements: Radium Periodic Table of the Elements: Radium Atomic Number: 88 Atomic Symbol: Ra Radium Atomic Weight: 226.0254 Electron Configuration: 2 · 8 ·&thinsp...
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