Radium, the most widely publicized of earth's 92 elements, is now being advertised for sale in the back pages of metallurgical journals. Reason: despite 40 years of hullabaloo, man has found very few uses for it.
Most widely touted use has been for treatment of some cancer conditions, and possibly 300 grams have been sold to U.S. hospitals and doctors. But few specialists are expert enough to use it effectively, few are the cases (less than 20%) in which it could be 100% effective no matter what their skill. Moreover, high-voltage X-rays have increasingly replaced radium for use on...
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