But few have seen a thermometer rising under the influence of a few centigrammes of a radium salt; but for those who ... be so much more intensified as the isolated quantities involved are the ...

Marie Curie isolated an element that she and her husband named ‘radium’ after three years of experimentation in her laboratory Credit: Hulton Archive The work took three years and was ...

We are sure!' After working through tonnes of the pitchblende slag, the Curies identified two new elements in the remaining material - polonium and radium. They finally isolated radium in 1902 in its ...