Radioisotopes

Marie Curie discovered the elements ___ and _____

• Thorium

• Radon

• Radium

• Polonium

The radium girls were also known as ____

• The walking dead

• The glowing girls

• The ghost girls

• The clock girls

Chernobyl disaster was enhanced

• No secondary containment

• ss

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Marie Curie was the first women to ____

• Win a noble prize

• Win a noble prize in chemistry

• Win a noble prize in physics

• Win a noble prize in chemistry and physics

• Have an element name after her

Radium is linked to effects on human health including

• Bone marrow disease

• Cancer

• Tooth loss

Radium-226 (Ra) has an atomic number of 88 and atomic mass 226. It is part of the Uranium decay series. Ra-226 decays into ____ by emitting an alpha partical

• Radon -222

• Lawrencium-226

• Radium-88

• Thorium-232

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The ____ is a unit of measure used to describe the activity of a radioactive substance. It is based on the number of atoms in one gram of Ra-226 that will decay in one second.

• Geiger

• Curie

• Alpha

• Gamma

• Beta

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Radium was used for all of the following, except

• to make self-luminous paints for watches and aircraft instruments

• to produce radon gas for cancer treatment

• to make uranium for nuclear weapons

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Because radium-226 has a half-life of 1,600 years

• Marie Curie's laboratory notebook can not be handed safely today without protection.

• Marie Curie's body was placed in a coffin lined with lead

• Little to no Radium-226 is left on Earth because it has all decayed away.

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Radioactive fallout at Chernobyl has resulted in

• Lower animal biodiversity than anticipated

• 1,000 mile exclusion zone around the city

• Slow recovery and low abundance of native plants and animals

• Physical deformities in birds and mammals

• Adaptations of certain plants and animals to high levels of radiation

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