0 (symbol Ra) a radioactive metallic element, used in treating certain diseases -- rádium
The shortage of radium in this country is, it seems to me, a national disgrace.
There is a classic example of that in the use of radium.
For twenty years there has been research in radium and cancer.
If it had been spent on the light cure or radium, then everyone might have been pleased.
Radium is not produced as a by-product of the release of atomic energy.
Radium salts are at present used, medically, for research and for the treatment of certain special morbid conditions.
It does not pay individual surgeons to invest their time and money in learning how to use radium.
At the same time as we require more radium we require more skilled people to treat it.
