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What radium compound was first isolated in a pure state?

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radium chloride

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What color were the undocumented spectral lines that helped identify radium?

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carmine

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In the Curies' radium mixture, barium compounds gave what flame color?

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green

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Marie Curie found pitchblende was how many times as active as uranium itself?

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four

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What did uranium rays cause the air around Marie Curie's samples to conduct?

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electricity

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What color paper did Becquerel wrap around photographic plates in his uranium-ray experiments?

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black

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On what date did Becquerel develop the unexpectedly strong dark-drawer photographic plates?

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1 March 1896

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Which colleague read Röntgen's X-ray preprint at the French Academy meeting Becquerel attended in 1896?

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Henri Poincaré

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What share of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics did Henri Becquerel receive?

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one half

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What is the English title of Marie Curie's 1903 doctoral thesis?

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Research on Radioactive Substances

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Who presented Marie Curie's April 1898 paper on uranium rays to the Académie des Sciences?

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Gabriel Lippmann

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At the 1910 meeting defining the curie, Marie Curie insisted it equal the activity of how much radium?

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one gram

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