A highly radioactive and dangerous substance, radium was being treated as a miracle medicine that had been hailed as a cure-all for anything!

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Radioactive tracers in biology.

Radioactive tracers in biology.

We know that the radioactive elements are constantly breaking down, and one often hears uranium, for instance, called the 'parent' of radium.

"And I can put this gold back and bring it out copper or hydrogen, or better yet, can advance it instead of cause it to decay, and can get a radioactive element which I have named morganiumafter my first name, Morgan Prescott.

Morganium is a radioactive element next in the series to radium and much more active.

Teats of that dust showed it to be extremely radioactive.