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A bottle of Radithor at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in New Mexico, United States. Radithor was a patent medicine that is a well-known example of radioactive quackery. It consisted of triple-distilled water containing at a minimum 1 microcurie (37 kBq) each of the radium-226 and 228 isotopes.
For the persistent pain, a doctor suggested he take Radithor, a patent medicine manufactured by William J. A. Bailey. [5] Bailey was a Harvard University dropout who falsely claimed to be a doctor of medicine and had become rich from the sale of Radithor, a solution of radium in water which he claimed stimulated the endocrine system.
Notable examples [ edit ] Tho-Radia , a cream containing radium bromide, notable for its iconic advertising using the name of Dr. Alfred Curie, who shared the surname of Pierre and Marie Curie but had no connection to them.
Radithor, a well known patent medicine or snake oil, is possibly the best known example of radioactive quackery. It consisted of triple distilled water containing at a minimum 1 microcurie (37 kBq) each of the radium -226 and radium-228 isotopes.
Such nuclides are considered to be "stable" until a decay has been observed in some fashion. For example, tellurium-123 was reported to be radioactive, but the same experimental group later retracted this report, and it presently remains observationally stable. The next group is the primordial radioactive nuclides.
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The particular isotope of iodine has a half-life of 8 days. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] The European Commission sent out a warning over their ECURIE -alert system on 29 August. [ 77 ] The quantity of radioactivity released into the environment was estimated at 45 GBq 131 I, which corresponds to a dose of 160 μSv (effective dose) for a hypothetical person ...
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