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    The radium levels of Brazil Nuts can be up to 1,000 circumstances higher than what you will discover in different foods. This is not brought on by contamination or lifted levels of radium in the dirt, yet rather the extremely expanded root arrangement of the Brazil nut tree. With such a substantial and broad system, the roots channel water and supplements from more soil than your normal tree. That implies they're taking in a greater amount of numerous things: more minerals, such as selenium and

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    How has nuclear medicine innovated science and society? Within the last century, science faced several discoveries that caused the scientific community and society to change one another. When evaluating the scientific discoveries during the twentieth century, the decisive advancements took place in the study of nuclear physics. Affecting both science and society inquires formed around medical uses for nuclear materials. Advanced research in nuclear science with radioisotopes allowed doctors to treat

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    they both discovered a new radioactive element. They named it polonium in honor of Marie’s country, Poland. The pair also discovered the existence of another radioactive material in the pitchblende, they named it radium. In 1902, the pair announced that they made a decigram of pure radium and demonstrated its existence as a special chemical element. In 1903 Marie Curie made history when she became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in physics. She won the award along with Pierre and Henri

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    the first woman to ever win a Nobel Prize. Marie and Pierre won the Nobel Prize in 1903 based on their groundbreaking discoveries in the field of physics. In 1911, Curie won yet another Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering elements polonium and radium. Not only did she win two Nobel Prizes as a female physicist, but she was the first person overall to ever win two prizes over all.. Additionally in 1903 the Curies were awarded the Davy Medal of Royal Society. Also, in 1906, she was the first woman

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    At birth original name was Maria Salomea Sklodowska, and she was born November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, the city that used to be the capital of Poland. There also was a province in Russia, and the rest of the parts of the nation had been taken over by Prussia and Austria. She became involved in a student's' revolutionary organization leaves Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia. Maria’s family wanted their country to be independent. Her parents, Władysław Skłodowski and Bronisława Skłodowska

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    a woman did it.” (Hart 515). Some people would argue that Marie Curie’s research was influential because she grew up in Russian controlled areas of Poland, where learning about certain things was not allowed, she isolated the elements polonium and radium in pitchblende, and that her work helped advance the development of nuclear technologies. Growing up, Marie Curie was not in the best of situations, however this gave her the hunger to learn more. She was born in the Russian controlled Kingdom of

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    The Life Of Marie Curie

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    The life of Marie Curie and her Einstein Number Marie Curie, born Maria Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland. Gaining her basic education in public schools and some of her scientific training from her father. As a student she became involved in a Student 's Revolutionary organization and found it necessary to leave Warsaw. This move helping to give her the means to begin her longstanding career in science. She would eventually become one of the most famous women in science to date, an icon in

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    Radon

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    Background and Introduction: 1. Radon is one of the noble gas with the symbol Rn 2. It is a colorless, odorless and radioactive noble gas 3. It is usually formed by the decay of radioactive metals, such as uranium, thorium, or radium 3. Normally states as gas in 20°C 4. Radon has negative influences on human being if it is used in a wrong way 5. Normally, radon can be found indoors and outdoors 6. The average level of radon is 1.3 picocuries per liter indoor 7. The average outdoor level of radon

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    article it shows that “ Curie also established a military radiotherapy service, using radon—a radioactive gas emitted as radium decays—sealed in thin glass tubes, which, when placed inside needles strategically positioned within patients’ bodies, could destroy diseased tissue. After the war’s end in November 1918, Curie also offered radiology courses to U.S. soldiers through the Radium Institute.” Marie Curie did radiotherapy services for those soldiers in war and this destroyed the diseased tissue which

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    Marie Sklodowski was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Both of her parents were educators and believed that their daughters should be just as educated as their sons. Marie graduated high school at the age of 15 and was the top of her class. She wished to attend college to study science but was unable to in her home town because the University of Warsaw did not accept women. She was, however, able to enroll at Sorbonne in Paris. In 1893 Marie earned her Master’s degree in physics, and again

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