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What element did Henri Becquerel use in his discovery of radioactivity?

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Uranium

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Which device did Pierre and Jacques Curie invent to measure small electric charges?

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Piezoelectric electrometer

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What is the half-life of uranium-238?

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4.468 billion years

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In what year did Rutherford and Soddy propose the radioactive decay theory?

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1902

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Who discovered gamma radiation in 1900?

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Paul Villard

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In which Nobel Prize category did Marie Curie receive her first award?

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Physics

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In what city did Marie Curie conduct most of her research?

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Paris

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What element has atomic number 88?

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Radium

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Which scientist coined the term 'radioactivity'?

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Marie Curie

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What is the chemical symbol for uranium?

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U

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From which Bohemian town did Marie Curie obtain pitchblende?

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Jáchymov

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In what year did Marie Curie isolate pure radium metal?

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1910

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