Sentences with phrase «as radium»

Shale has a radioactive signature — from uranium isotopes such as radium - 226 and radium - 228 — that geologists and drillers often measure to chart the vast underground formations.

The «volcanic eruptions», which we may for convenience compare to the infra - visual activity of such substances as radium, take place usually in the «evening» are stimulated by the smoke and industrial combustions of the «day» and are intensified in certain places which may, for the want of a better term, be called «dark places».

Radiotherapy utilizes high - energy gamma - rays that are emitted from metals such as radium or high - energy x-rays that are created in a special machine.

Lord Henley, the junior defence minister, tells me that he and his senior officials are busily classifying these MOD sites according to whether they were once used for radioactive processes such as radium luminising, or as part of a former chemical warfare programme, or were just subject to extreme flooding.

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Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

In the eighty years since its invention, it has helped to explain phenomena ranging from the glow of radium to the detonation of stars, and yielded such potent technologies as lasers and computer chips.

Soon doctors were touting radium, like X-rays, as a cure for every affliction from warts to nosebleeds to infertility.

This suggests that radium builds up in the soil as the spilled brine flows through the environment.

Element 120, meanwhile, «should be called janskium after Karl Jansky the radio - astronomer, as it would appear directly below radium.»

For ores that contain even less concentrated uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active mine — the proportion of waste in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's uranium is much less concentrated than the mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.

With the aid of nuclear industry promotional pamphlets and detailed advice he obtained from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (to which he misrepresented himself as a physics professor), Hahn removed radium from old clocks, extracted americium from smoke detectors, stole tritium from borrowed night - vision equipment, and even ordered a sample of uranium - bearing ore from a company in the Czech Republic.

When the wastewater comes back up after use, it often includes those and potentially dangerous natural chemicals such as arsenic, selenium and radioactive radium drawn up from subterranean recesses.

The increased wave action reaches down and stirs up sediments on shallow continental shelves, releasing radium and other chemicals that are carried up to the surface and swept away into the open ocean by currents such as the Transpolar Drift.

In the eighty years since its invention, it has helped to explain phenomena ranging from the glow of radium to the detonation of stars, and yielded such potent technologies as lasers and computer -LSB-...]

The research team tracked methane concentrations along with radon and radium, naturally occurring elements that serve as tracers for groundwater.

At Toolik Lake, Paytan and her colleagues tracked methane concentrations concurrently with two naturally occurring elements (radon and radium) that serve as tracers for groundwater.

This also produced heavy elements that were not on earth before the flood (elements heavier than lead, such as bismuth, polonium, radon, radium, thorium, uranium, etc.) The greater the heat, the more heavy elements formed and absorbed that heat.

And yet, the International Agency on Research of Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, classified hormonal contraceptives in 2005 as a group one carcinogen along with asbestos and radium.»

Directed by Sean Baker — who also served as co-cinematographer alongside Radium Cheung — Tangerine is first and foremost a burst of startling, saturated imagery.

And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers» rights that will echo for centuries to come.

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One ton of uranium ore can contain as little as 0.14 grams of radium.

The Curies» newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community.

Our hero and his friends go to South America to look for radium, which has anti-gravity properties, and battle with a race of cruel Inca - type people who use the radium to fly, and disguise themselves as giant birds and terrorise the locals.

You discover photographic plates, you know, getting fogged up in your desk drawer as Becquerel did, and start looking at that, and Madame Curie started looking at that, and you discover some kind of strange radiation, from beryllium and radium and you know, Chadwick had enough sense to realize, oh my god this is a completely new particle, it's a neutron; it goes right through most things.