Radium bromide the air causes this luminescence. Radium bromide is also very dangerous since the crystals occasionally explode. Helium gas evolved from alpha particles can accumulate within the crystals which cause them to weaken and rupture. Another property of radium bromide is its ability to crystallize from an aqueous solution. It forms a dihydrate, very similar to barium bromide. The chemical radium bromide is not found in nature; it is created. To extract radium from uranium or pitchblende ores, the most common practice is called the Curie method which it involves two major stages. The first stage is a chemical treatment to
Radium Cruiser the Mackenzie River for almost eight months of the year. Like her sister ship, "Radium Express", she was smaller than the "Radium King" and "Radium Queen", just long. In 2005 Atomic Energy of Canada published a study of the toxic legacy of the mining of radioactive ore at Port Radium. According to the report all but one of the surviving vessels of the Radium line were found to be free of contamination, with the exception of the "Radium Gilbert", but the disposition of the "Radium Cruiser" was not known. Radium Cruiser The Radium Cruiser was a Russel Brothers tugboat operated