The wonders of radium

by Maynard Shipley

CONTENTS

		Page
I.	Introductory	[5]
	All Matter Radioactive	[9]
II.	Everyday Uses of Radium	[16]
	Radium Makes Gems Blush	[18]
	A Radium Clock	[19]
III.	Radium and the Age of the Earth	[21]
IV.	An Epoch-Making Discovery	[30]
	How Radium is Converted to Lead	[34]
V.	Radium in the Treatment of Cancer	[45]
VI.	Efficiency of Radium in Treatment of Various Diseases	[51]
VII.	Where We Get Radium	[55]
	New Sources of Radium	[58]
	The Radioactive Disintegration Series	[60]
	Uranium I Series	[63]
	Uranium Y Series	[63]
	Thorium Series	[64]