Marie Curie's experiment?

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Does anyone know where I can find the steps Marie Curie took in her experiment that discovered radiation?

Does anyone know the steps she took in her experiment to discover radium?

Answer 1

I do know a few things documented about the work. The event that started everything was a mildly radioactive rock that was placed in a drawer with an unexposed photographic plate (mercury process) in a lab. She knew the professor who could not really explain the exposure, but they knew they had something important. She ended up in a reasearch assistanceship with the man she would marry. Together, the husband and wife team kept working witht the rock to distill out the radioactive bits by destructive distillation, grinding into small bits and using solvents, using heat, etc. etc. They finally ended up discovering Radium, which was a residue left in a glass in the lab. They did 100's of dangerous experiments with dangerous chemicals and metals, and ended up seeing the radium glow on the plate. Her husband, according to A&E documentary, was off shopping for her birthday and was looking for flowers, and he was run down by a rogue coach in the street. I'm not sure if thats the full version, because both of them ended up suffering from isotopic damage working with these radioactive chemicals.

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Marie Curie Experiments

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Marie Curie's experiment?
Does anyone know where I can find the steps Marie Curie took in her experiment that discovered radiation?

Answer 4

Marie Curie didn't discover radiation. It was Henri Becquerel in 1896. Marie Curie used his discovery to which led to the isolation of polonium, named after the country of Marie's birth, and radium.Mme. Curie developed methods for the separation of radium from radioactive residues in sufficient quantities to allow for its characterization and the careful study of its properties, therapeutic properties in particular.