How to Use "radium" with Example Sentences

1. However , government officials say the cause was under the floor of a nearby house : old bottles containing radium powder .

2. Radium , that source of x-rays used to treat some cancers , had induced fatal malignancies in marie curie and her fellow researchers .

3. Ironically , its active ingredient is radium , a substance more usually thought of as a cause of cancer than as a treatment .

4. But he does manage to track down some elements traders who will sell him magnesium salvaged from ships and radium from the glowing hands of old wristwatches .

5. But one reason radium is dangerous is that , as a glance at the periodic table will show , it is chemically similar to calcium , a principal ingredient of bone .