How to Use radium in a Sentence

radium

noun

• The treatment, called radium, targets the growth of new bone, which aligns with the spread of cancer.
  — Melinda Carstensen, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2016
• At present, the local system filters the radium and it’s safe to drink.
  — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2022
• Curie sailed on June 25th on the Olympic, on which was carried her precious gram of radium.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
• Marie even kept radium salts on her bedside table — not a good choice of night lights.
  — Elisa Neckar, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2013
• The $286 million project will divert lake water and negate the use of deep aquifer wells where the radium problem is rooted.
  — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2022
• Back in Brandon, the city decisions on treating that radium are likely to take a year or more.
  — CBS News, 26 Jan. 2018
• Some of that drilling waste registered radium levels at 300 times the state’s limits.
  — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2020
• The first insert is set in Cleveland in 1957, where a doctor tests a new radium gun on a young boy suffering from cancer.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2019
• In 1911 Curie won her second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, for her work with polonium and radium.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• Grace Fryer and her fellow radium girls fought for justice.
  — Sherri Becker, Philly.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Clark said there are many, many paths uranium and radium can travel that poison lands, waters and living things.
  — Debra Krol, azcentral, 29 Oct. 2019
• The health problems that result from working with the radium are also a challenge to portray, Deptula said.
  — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 16 Feb. 2023
• In the center are several small compartments, formed of lead and surrounded by steel, each one sized for a small glass tube containing a portion of the radium salts.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
• Maddie has undergone three monthly rounds of the radium, and each injection is infused over one minute.
  — Melinda Carstensen, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2016
• At the time, radium was considered a miracle medicine, believed to extend life.
  — Sherri Becker, Philly.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Deborah Blum on the discovery of radium, in a stunning three-partseries.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2011
• Within five years, many of them had grown ill from radium poisoning, or contracted rare bone cancers.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2021
• The United States Radium Corporation provided an answer in the form of its glow-in-the-dark paint, which contained radium.
  — John Lisle, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2020
• Other communities may not be aware of their radium risk.
  — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2018
• The couple discovered polonium (named after Marie’s homeland, the Kingdom of Poland) and radium within a few months.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2021
• In a journalism career that spanned 60 years, Gellhorn’s particular brand of nerve was rare as radium.
  — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 12 July 2018
• Some of the hottest material buried in Arlington is giving off 350 times more radium than state limits allow.
  — oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2020
• Noncompliance after that date could result in fines of up to $5,000 per well per day and for as long as the radium stays above the federal limit, according to state officials.
  — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2022
• At more than 70 sites across the country, toxins like arsenic, mercury, and radium are leaching into groundwater from pond-like storage pits filled with the sludgy leftovers of coal burning.
  — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 12 Mar. 2018
• Since then, the park's water has exceeded allowed radium levels 15 times, court documents show.
  — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 22 July 2023
• The penalties for noncompliance of radium limits are even steeper if the city fails to fully complete the Lake Michigan water system by September 2023.
  — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2019
• Workers then began questioning the safety of radium, which led to the unraveling of corporate lies of the radioactive metal.
  — cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
• However, the need for nighttime and low-light illumination in the trenches caused watch companies to begin painting their dials with radium, the dangers of which were then unknown.
  — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 13 June 2024
• Initially, uranium was just a waste byproduct of digging for the more valuable radium, which Nobel-prize winner Marie Curie had helped discover could treat cancer.
  — Ngofeen Mputubwele, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
• The discovery of radium and other radioactive metals opened the doors to administering higher doses of radiation to target cancers located deeper within the body.
  — Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024