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MADAME CURIE and M. Debierne have presented a joint memoir to the Paris Academy of Sciences announcing that they have succeeded in isolating pure radium. The metallic radium obtained is reported to be of a brilliant white colour, which blackens when exposed to the air. It burns paper, rapidly decomposes water, and adheres to iron.
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Notes . Nature 84, 313–317 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084313a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/084313a0