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Why is radium still on Earth?

Updated: 10/17/2022
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8y ago

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Radium is a decay product of uranium and is constantly being produced. U-238 has a half-life of about 4.5 billion years, so there's still quite a bit left of the original amount on Earth.

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Radium is a decay product of uranium and thorium; if U and Th exist in the earth also radium exist.

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it is cause of the long time it takes to deteriorate. earths resourses of radium will last some mor million years at least.

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