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Radium (Ra, 88, December 1989)

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Discovered by Marie Curie when she noticed that there was some yet unknown more radioactive element in their raw samples, after uranium and polonium, which she published 6 months prior, had already been separated. Published on December 1989 as: Section "Sur une nouvelle substance fortement radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende".
The uranium 238 decay chain is the main source of naturally occurring radium.
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The epic story of radium by Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (2013)
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