Properties, sources and uses of the element radium. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Live Science. Search. ... Atomic symbol (on the periodic table of elements): Ra; ...

In the new movie Radioactive, Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley play Marie and Pierre Curie, the star-crossed couple who bonded over science and helped discover two elements: Radium and Polonium. They ...

Before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration outlawed radium for personal use, the element was considered an essential ingredient in cooking pots meant to relieve farting, wristwatches, and even ...

Following on Becquerel, the Curies succeeded in isolating element 84, polonium (named for Poland, the country of Marie's birth), and then element 88, radium. It was Marie, ...