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Radium is:

A. more powerful than uranium
B. less powerful than uranium
C. identical to an alpha particle
D. not a radioactive element

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A more than powerful than uranium
User Dawid Fieluba
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The correct answer is A) more powerful than uranium.

Radium is more powerful than uranium.

Radium is part of our environment. It's part of nature, in small amounts. It is part of the alkaline-earth group and was discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898. Although is soft it has a lot of radiation. When it is exposed to air, it quickly oxidizes. It corrodes in water because it forms radium hydroxide.

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