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the horrible timeline of radium

  • the discovery of radium

    the discovery of radium
    the discovery of radium started with the famous female scientist,Marie Curie.after discovering that there might be other elements in uranium.after over 3 years,she finally found radium with her husband and her unborn child.
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    the horrible timline of radium

    from Marie curie discovering radium from uranium.to the NRC banning the use of radium emtirelly.we will go thought the discovery, the hardships, the irreversible health damaging process
  • marie curie discovers radioactivity

    while making a trying to isolate polonium,she found radioactivity,because of poloniums short half-life she found that things that are radioactive have radioactive half-lifes mraking her discovery of radio activity
  • the nobel prize

    the nobel prize
    5 years after the discovery of radium;marie curies husband,pierre curie,gets the nobel prize for the dicovery of a new element.even though marie curie did most of the work an discovery,while she was even pregnant
  • maire curies second childs born

    maries curies second child,eve curie
  • pierre curie starts getting sick form radiation poisoning

    pierre curie starts getting sick from radiation poisoning from the radium
  • pierre curie dies

    pierre curie dies not from radiation poisoning but from his head being smashed in with a carriage hitch
  • marie curie gets her second nobel prize

    marie curie get her second nobel prize which is in all technacality her first
  • radium paint is used

    radium paint is used to make the dials and arrows on clock glow
  • radium water is made

    radium infused water called radithor is made
  • the CDC bans the some uses of radium

    the CDC bans the use of radithor and cosmetic uses of radium
  • a court trial starts over american radium

    american radium has a lawsuit put against them for the murders and irreversable damages of the workers of radium
  • the court trials end

    multiple court trials have been appealed and only now did it stop
  • the use radium has ended

    the use of radium has been banned intirally