Use "radium" in a sentence
radium example sentences
radium
1. The light came from one of the radium gems which adorned the walls of Xuthal
2. The light from the radium gem did not illumine it as it would have illumined an ordinary creature
3. Loofah perched briefly next to the aisle being showed photographs of grandchildren and listening to stories about operations, radium cream, and home help
4. My shoulders started aching putting up those radium stars on the wals of the auditorium but my patience didn’t wash off
5. Some forms of radiation, such as from the radium or cesium isotopes used in cancer treatments, are fairly simple to detect from the air because they penetrate most substances unless heavily shielded
6. removed a portion of his alimentary canal followed by the usual radium and chemotherapy
7. Pierre and Marie Curie (1859–1906; 1867–1934) identified the radioactive element within uranium and named it radium in 1902
8. But what can you do with it? Marie, a brilliant mathematician and physicist, set herself to working out the medical application of radium
9. Working on humanitarian applications for radium meant Marie had to master a lot of chemistry, which she did so well that in 1911, five years after the death of her beloved Pierre in a road accident, she won another Nobel Prize, this one for Chemistry
10. They have had me down in the pits below the buildings helping them mix their awful radium powder, and make their terrible projectiles
11. You have noticed that their bullets explode when they strike an object? Well, the opaque, outer coating is broken by the impact, exposing a glass cylinder, almost solid, in the forward end of which is a minute particle of radium powder
12. " [I have used the word radium in describing this powder because in the light of recent discoveries on Earth I believe it to be a mixture of which radium is the base
13. He led me to an inner chamber where I beheld a battery of twenty radium pumps any one of which was equal to the task of furnishing all Mars with the atmosphere compound
14. In his mind was the decision to inspect the radium pumps, which would take about thirty minutes, and then return to my bed chamber and finish me
15. The driver sits on top of this plane upon a seat constructed over the small, noiseless radium engine which propels it
16. “But most women would pay the price of a pound of radium for that infinitesimal depth,” she returned, flippantly
