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Radium (other)
Radium is a chemical element with symbol Ra and atomic number 88. Radium may also refer to: Places *Radium, Colorado, United States *Radium, Kansas, United States *Radium, Minnesota, United States *Radium, Virginia, United States *Radium Hot Springs (British Columbia), Canada Computing *Radium, software for Sirius Satellite Radio *Radium, software for module files *Radium (warez), a software piracy group Other uses *Radium Futebol Clube, a Brazilian association football club *Radium (Australian horse), an Australian campdrafting horse and sire *Radium (British horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse *Radium (album), ''Radium'' (album), an album by Ruoska *FiXT Radium, the Radium label from music company FiXT *Radium Flour, a former brand of flour sold in Canada produced by the maker of Robin Hood Flour *Radium Line, a marine transportation company operating out of Port Radium, NWT, Canada *Radium weed, ''Euphorbia peplus'', also known as Petty Spurge *Radium Lavans, a fictiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radium
Radium is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol Ra and atomic number 88. It is the sixth element in alkaline earth metal, group 2 of the periodic table, also known as the alkaline earth metals. Pure radium is silvery-white, but it readily reacts with nitrogen (rather than oxygen) upon exposure to air, forming a black surface layer of radium nitride (Ra3N2). All isotopes of radium are radioactive, the most stable isotope being radium-226 with a half-life of 1,600 years. When radium decays, it emits ionizing radiation as a by-product, which can excite fluorescent chemicals and cause radioluminescence. For this property, it was widely used in Self-luminous paint, self-luminous paints following its discovery. Of the Radionuclide, radioactive elements that occur in quantity, radium is considered particularly Toxicity, toxic, and it is Carcinogen, carcinogenic due to the radioactivity of both it and its immediate decay product radon as well as its tendency to B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
